"I DON'T UNDERSTAND! What's happening to me? I can't see!"
Her shriek filled the air, causing the elderly woman to come huffing and puffing into her room. She wasn't young any longer and hadn't run anywhere in years, but she knew that sound and had felt her heart stop.
"What is it? What is it, my awasis? Why are you screaming?"
The old woman entered the room to find the girl crumpled on the floor, crying as if her life was over. When the girl looked up, the old woman gasped.
"Oh, my child! Your eyes!"
The girl looked at her with swirling white eyes. The woman knew that some great event had befallen her granddaughter and crossed herself the way the church had taught her to do. She mostly followed the old ways but went to church on Sunday with the other old women, believing that God was
