naftakin, the blind           
                                   
                                          
 a student  at  the charcoal guild... his 
 eyes  sewn shut  from birth...  the most 
            successful student            
                                          
 but  one day he fell down into a crystal 
 cavern. it  was deep in the  mountain, a 
 great  hall  with  only  a  single  tiny 
 inlet  for  both   light   and   falling 
                students...               
                                          
 in the  fall, the quartz  sliced off the 
 threads in  his eyes, opening  them  for 
 the   first  time.   before   him,   the 
 crystals mirrored and  refracted the one 
 light  smidge into  a  whole night  sky, 
 and   he  was   struck  down  with   awe 
                                          
 but  also with  shame, because his  eyes 
 had  seen.  hurriedly,  he  used  thread 
 from  his   robe   to   sew   them  back 
 together, and when help came  he did not 
        tell of his transgression.        
                                          
 for  years he  studied  at the guild. he 
 became a  master,  and  then  a pilgrim. 
 yet the image  from the  cave never left 
                   him.                   
                                          
 at the  end  of his  life,  when at  the 
 edge of  the world  he opened  his  eyes 
 for a  second time, stars had hatched in 
                  them...