I have so many ideas for Qifrey once the Curse is cured.
He loses his eyesight completely. In the end he no longer needs it, like he felt he needed it to hunt down the brimmed caps. But he’s still disappointed that he can’t see Olruggio and the girl’s faces anymore. Their cheerful smiles. Their wonderful spells.
So the girls make stuff that he can feel. Sculptures of ice and stone that he can run his hands over. They guide his hands across the pages so he can feel their seals and still give them guidance.
He also asks to hold their faces to remember what they look like. Even Agott agrees, and he gently traces their faces with his thumbs, and bumps their foreheads with his. He can feel their smiles again.
Olruggio and Richeh work together to make her rings get warmer the closer they are to a person. That way he can tell where the others are and when someone is coming up to him.
Water is still unnerving to him, but now he can use it for relaxation. Lowering his hands into a cool stream, lying in a warm hot spring, feeling a sea breeze mist across his face.
Olruggio does most of the cooking from now on, but he still does stuff wrong on purpose to get Qifrey in the kitchen. Qifrey takes it up quickly again, and everything is kept in consistent places so he can help.
He gets to really enjoy all sorts of foods he rarely ate before. He’s got months worth of dishes he’s been dying to have again because they were so good. Too good for his own good. Olruggio is happy to indulge, and is even happier to see Qifrey gain weight. (And not be a twig anymore…)
He finally gets to sleep. And sleep he does. He’s so used to keeping himself awake, but now the whole atelier conspires to get him to nap. Warm tea, snug stones, serpents bed of sand, etc.
They probably have a tally of who has gotten him to sleep the most. No one can beat Olruggio but Agott is, surprisingly, second place.
He still practices spells with the girls. He knows plenty of seals by heart and can do them without looking…but his confidence is shaken without his eyes. It’s up to the girls to be his teacher now, and they take on the task with pride.
If he still has a small amount of vision, like seeing bright lights/shadows, I imagine the girls make glowing paths and orbs for him to follow. Especially when they have something they want to show him. Maybe Richeh’s glowing ribbons beckon him outside to watch the Passage Stars. If they’re not bright enough, they draw illusions that are closer and brighter so he can watch them cross the sky.
