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......=/%@ naftakin, the blind @%/=......
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..=/%§@@## a student at the charcoal guild... his ##@@§%/=..
..=////%@# eyes sewn shut from birth... the most #@%////=..
..=/%§@@## successful student ##@@§%/=..
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......./§@ 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... ###@§%/=..
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..=/%§@@## 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 #@@@§%/=..
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..==/%§@@# 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. @@@@§%/=..
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..=/%§@### for years he studied at the guild. he ###@§%/=..
..=/%§@@## became a master, and then a pilgrim. ##@@§%/=..
..=/%§@@## yet the image from the cave never left ##@@§%/=..
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.....==/§@ 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 ##@@§%/=..
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