Eternal Blindness
Never had I felt such a tremendous burden. He was asking me to choose between all I'd ever known and all I'd ever felt. If I chose to keep my eyes closed upon him and the rest of the world, I would never see him, both literally and not, ever again. All my life, I had been taught that the alleged "sightrens" were malicious creatures, waiting to lure us in with their beauty and then destroy us; I had been taught that the world was a safer place if we just did what the government said; I had been taught that we should always, always, keep our eyes closed.
