What a beautiful story! You painted Vartan's inner journey with such vivid colors and details that I wish someone would put it to canvas. Your story gave sense to why he'd been eased through the successive dreams from the Ancient Ones, to achieve understanding of his ultimate purpose.
Then to find out that the jade discs had a higher importance this entire time? Fantastic!
I loved how you tied in the title with your ending, Vartan's journey back with the precious stone of power and the "thousand windows" closing behind him.
---Brisby