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%title Unseeing (working title)
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:writing:fiction:
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Idea: The terror of a sudden addition of a new, unknowable sense.
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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.
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Conflict: a fae character (presence?) gives him sight - the narrator? "I gave him sight"? That makes the opening a series of observances.
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## Notes
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* Ýng is nonbinary, They/Their. NB: go back and capitalize.
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* Fix tenses, they're all over the place
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* More scent, more tactility - whiskers etc
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* 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
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## Characters
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* Lyut(garde)
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* A critter analogous to a pine marten
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* Endlessly faithful
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* Prays to/meditates/becomes one with Ýng god/spirit of physicality/touch/smell
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* Makes incense, lives off forage and fishing
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* Profoundly blind from birth
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* Zita
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* 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.
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* Týw
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* god/spirit of light and trickster
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## Outline
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* On Lyut's life
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* [X] [On making incense](making-incense)
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* [o] [On foraging and fishing](foraging)
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* [o] [On cycles, days, weeks, sun, heat, seasons](cycles-heat)
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* [o] [On Zita and the town below](zita)
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* Confounding with sight
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* [o] [Týw makes a move](seeing)
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* [o] [Lyut learns to see](learning)
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* [o] [Zita finds out](discovered)
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* [o] [Týw's punishment is being seen and praised openly](punishment)
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