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The Apple-of-the-Eye lives in the Glassgarden, the part of the Mansus open to the sight of the Glory. It guards the entrance to the garden with the Mirage Door, that demands you best yourself before you may proceed, for the Apple-of-the-Eye permits no equal.

== Relationships ==

* [[The Maker]]: Once a treasured ally who created several emanations of the Tower of Treasures. Sorely missed.

{{Aspect|Lantern|6}}, {{Aspect|Moth|6}}, Tool, Mirror.

Look into it, and see yourself scarless and brittle and beautiful. This is what Narcissus felt.

{{Aspect|Lantern|8}}, Tool.

The land of Hourai and the Long that inhabit it could not have existed in any daylight History, but the jewel-fruits of its trees are sought by adepts to this day.

{{Aspect|Moth|12}}, Tool.

A nameless Tibetan monk is said to have fully understood the essence, nature and power of the world. This was his only weapon, tool, and compass.

{{Aspect|Lantern|8}}, Tool.

Here is Narcissus, beaming and beautiful.

{{Aspect|Moth|8}}, Tool.

Here is Narcissus, breathless and broken.

{{Aspect|Moth|4}}, Ingredient, Pigment.

It is said that fairies fly through the Wood when neither beast nor man nor plant can hear them, and shed tears for each desire that remains unfulfilled. Their tears glitter with the colours of broken starlight.

{{Aspect|Lantern|4}}, Ingredient, Pigment.

Here is a liquid desired by both artists and opticians, clear like the inside of one’s own eye.

[[The Jeweled Tantras]], while about the Glorious Lie, have their own entry due to their nature and the fact there's seven of 'em.

A Geminate Invocation ({{Aspect|Heart|8}})

The plausibly pseudonymous poetess and stargazer Heron Maribelle presents an epistolary romance between members of warring factions. The writing, while cliché, is heavy with occult undertones.

Heron Maribelle possesses knowledge of apocryphal tantras uncharacteristic of an average englishwoman. Over the course of the Odes, Samuel recited seven, and Edward dismantles each one in turn. They are not married under the patronage of any one Hour, but their vows include a defensive invocation against the Apple-of-the-Eye, whom both lovers agree is a ‘most vain of gods’.

Formulae Concursate ({{Aspect|Lantern|10}}), Hearn’s Flat (A Vault)

The private journal of Samuel Shine’ his long-winded journey through Tibet, and the only eyewitness account of a nameless monk’s achievement of complete knowledge of the world in its essence, nature and power. A lot of the journal is made up of numbers - prices, mostly - and Samuel’s numerological observations.

Seven days after they met, the hermit falls to an unclear illness. Samuel writes that while the monk had always had an aura to him, it became all the more tangible with his passing - he describes the rainbow colours emanating from his corpse as the colours of jewels. Over the next seven days, the body of the monk shrinks and shrinks, until only his tool and the seven colours remain. ‘I should bring the vajra back with me, as proof of what happened. It’s not as if the man will need it anymore. I wonder what that paranoiac Hearn will make of it…’

The Alignments of Murder ({{Aspect|Edge|12}})

A thorough account of the punishments administered by the wealthy guardian-god Bishamonten upon the heavenly demon - [[The Mendicant Without|the amanojaku]].

‘The amanojaku, being both heavenly and demonic, walks at the border. So, it is both living and dead. Bishamonten was unable to fell it, and so forbade the oni any and all entry into the temple. It is said that the amanojaku still waits at its gates.’

Sunspot Rite - The Glory rends the skin of any who would behold it, but even the Glory can be brought to mercy by the Apple-in-the-Eye, if presented with the right moment, the right companionship and the right sacrifice.