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...