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       In the town of Plateau, they had no light. Their 

leader, Libel, ordered them to make a brick dome around 

the town so no stars,moon,sky, or light at all could be 

seen. He was a cruel ruler. He believed that you should 

say anything and everything no matter if it was true or 

not. He also believed that you should rely on your ears 

for the truth, not your eyes.

     They adapted so much to this darkness, that their 

eyes were small and their ears were huge. They looked 

more like moles than people. 

Everyone agreed with him, because it was all they 

knew.... except one child.  

        Her name was Lumiere. She was small in size, but 

her eyes were big. She also had a small voice which 

made her different from the others. 

  Lumiere was also different because she had the one 

thing that was banned from Plateau: Light. 

 She found the light one day when she wasn't listening to 

others, and she kept it. She would take it from her hiding 

place at night when she was afraid of her dreams. 

      One day, she decided to show her mother. She walked 

to her mother one day and held it to the woman's face. 

"Look mom!Isn't it pretty!" Her mother saw it and gasped. 

"Get that out of here.," the woman screamed,"You know 

the rules! If Libel doesn't approve, it doesn't belong!"

     As soon as Lumiere's started talking, people started 

listening. Its what the people of Plateau breathed for. They 

loved new talk. 

Word traveled fast, and pretty soon, Libel himself knew 

about Lumiere's escapade. 

The next day, Libel marched 

through town, and people 

started to gather around and 

follow. His lip was twitching as 

they all stopped in the square 

of the town.

Lumiere was there too, but she 

wasn't scared of what Libel had 

to say, unlike the others. Libel 

looked down at the little girl 

and said with a smirk, "Aren't 

you afraid? I'm clearly more 

powerful than you."

Lumiere took her light from 

behind her and replied, "I have 

something more powerful than 

you'll ever be."

Gasps were heard through the crowd. Everyone was 

listening. No one was ever brave enough to disrespect him. 

Libel was angry, and almost livid. 

"How could something so small be more powerful than 

me?I hate it.", Libel stated loudly.

"It is more powerful than you because you are so affected 

by it. If you hate it so much, than why don't you look 

away?", Lumiere said just as loud, gaining confidence. The 

scary man stood there speechless, so Lumiere continued.

"You are the one who chooses to see what you hate, so 

why don't you look away instead of blinding everyone 

else?"

Libel was feeling murderous by now, and lunged at the 

child. But she was too quick for his old movements. She 

ran through the crowd swiftly as everyone shuffled in 

chaos. 

 Even though no one knew where she was going, she 

knew exactly what she had to do. She ran and ran 

until she reached the edge of the dome. 

    The bricks were crumbling, and the cement was 

wearing away from age. It was just waiting for the 

simple push that Lumiere delivered. With the little 

force of her hand, the dome started crumbling, brick 

by brick into dust. 

    No one knew that if you did something as small as 

knocking a wall down, so much could come out of it.

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