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<h1>Zk | Unseeing (working title)</h1>
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<p><span class="tag">writing</span> <span class="tag">fiction</span></p>
<p>Idea: The terror of a sudden addition of a new, unknowable sense.</p>
<p>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? &ldquo;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.&rdquo; Spend at least a few thousand words on day to day life and small challenges.</p>
<p>Conflict: a fae character (presence?) gives him sight - the narrator? &ldquo;I gave him sight&rdquo;? That makes the opening a series of observances.</p>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>
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<li>Ýng is nonbinary, They/Their. NB: go back and capitalize.</li>
<li>Fix tenses, they&rsquo;re all over the place</li>
<li>More scent, more tactility - whiskers etc</li>
<li>More detail later on, since there&rsquo;s so much early on. Describe seed cakes, describe the light and how confusing it is, describe how childlike he feels</li>
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<h2 id="characters">Characters</h2>
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<li>Lyut(garde)<ul>
<li>A critter analogous to a pine marten</li>
<li>Endlessly faithful</li>
<li>Prays to/meditates/becomes one with Ýng god/spirit of physicality/touch/smell</li>
<li>Makes incense, lives off forage and fishing</li>
<li>Profoundly blind from birth</li>
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<li>Zita<ul>
<li>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&rsquo;s never met her, but he smells her and calls her Zita.</li>
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<li>Týw<ul>
<li>god/spirit of light and trickster</li>
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<h2 id="outline">Outline</h2>
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<li>On Lyut&rsquo;s life<ul>
<li class="done4"> <a href="making-incense.html">On making incense</a></li>
<li class="done3"> <a href="foraging.html">On foraging and fishing</a></li>
<li class="done3"> <a href="cycles-heat.html">On cycles, days, weeks, sun, heat, seasons</a></li>
<li class="done3"> <a href="zita.html">On Zita and the town below</a></li>
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<li>Confounding with sight<ul>
<li class="done3"> <a href="seeing.html">Týw makes a move</a></li>
<li class="done3"> <a href="learning.html">Lyut learns to see</a></li>
<li class="done3"> <a href="discovered.html">Zita finds out</a></li>
<li class="done3"> <a href="punishment.html">Týw&rsquo;s punishment is being seen and praised openly</a></li>
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