¨.~††@&### ###&@††~.¨
¨.~††@&#@@ @@#&@††~.¨
¨¨¨¨.†††&& &&†††.¨¨¨¨
¨.~††@&### ###&@††~.¨
¨¨...†@@&& &&@@†...¨¨
¨¨¨~~†††@& ¨¨¨†¨¨¨ &@†††~~¨¨¨
¨.~††@&#@# 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... @&&††.¨¨¨¨
¨.~††@&#@# #@#&@††~.¨
¨.~††@&#@# #@#&@††~.¨
¨.~††@&#@# #@#&@††~.¨
¨.~††@@&## ##&@@††~.¨
¨.~††@&### ###&@††~.¨