%title Unseeing (working title)
:writing:fiction:

Idea: The terror of a sudden addition of a new, unknowable sense.

Story of a blind-from-birth character in a solipsist world, only one, makes incense and lives a life of prayer, foraging and fishing. Some animal - fisher, maybe? "He sat in the sun and was greatly warmed, and by this he had always surmised that his fur was of a particular quality that the sun was drawn to, for there were parts of his surroundings that rejected and repelled the sun." Spend at least a few thousand words on day to day life and small challenges.

Conflict: a fae character (presence?) gives him sight - the narrator? "I gave him sight"? That makes the opening a series of observances.

## Notes

* Ýng is nonbinary, They/Their. NB: go back and capitalize.
* Fix tenses, they're all over the place
* More scent, more tactility - whiskers etc
* More detail later on, since there's so much early on. Describe seed cakes, describe the light and how confusing it is, describe how childlike he feels

## Characters

* Lyut(garde)
    * A critter analogous to a pine marten
    * Endlessly faithful
    * Prays to/meditates/becomes one with Ýng god/spirit of physicality/touch/smell
    * Makes incense, lives off forage and fishing
    * Profoundly blind from birth
* Zita
    * Lyut will make larger batches of incense once a week and leave them at the mouth of his cave before bed, then wake to find a stack of flat loaves of bread and ingredients for incense; he's never met her, but he smells her and calls her Zita.
* Týw
    * god/spirit of light and trickster

## Outline

* On Lyut's life
    * [X] [On making incense](making-incense)
    * [O] [On foraging and fishing](foraging)
    * [O] [On cycles, days, weeks, sun, heat, seasons](cycles-heat)
    * [O] [On Zita and the town below](zita)
* Confounding with sight
    * [O] [Týw makes a move](seeing)
    * [O] [Lyut learns to see](learning)
    * [O] [Zita finds out](discovered)
    * [O] [Týw's punishment is being seen and praised openly](punishment)