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|Funny, isn't it, how so many of our stories start the same way, but have opposing endings? In half, the child ignores her parents, wanders out into the woods, and gets eaten. In the other half she discovers great wonders.
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'''The Girl Who Looked Up''' is a [[Rosharan]] folk tale that may be based on a historical event.
== The Story ==
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|Why is there a wall?
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A girl lives in a village by an impossibly high wall, which nobody in the village acknowledges. The wall casts a shadow that leaves the village in darkness forever. She asks and asks about the wall, and what it keeps out, but the villagers all repeat the same reply: "Don't go beyond it or you'll probably die." They tell her it was built to keep the monsters out.
She climbs the wall, and when she reaches the top she finds a better world, lit by [[Stormlight]]. She realizes that the people of her village were the monsters, living without light and the wall was to keep them contained. She steals some light and takes it back to her village. This act causes the storms to come and destroy the wall.
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Whilst
The story is then repeated by [[Hoid]] to Shallan while she is in [[Kholinar]], after discovering her attempts at helping the native residents had failed.{{book ref|sa3|82}} His version of the story includes details of what happened after the girl passed the wall.
== Trivia ==
* Brandon based the story on the various versions of [[wikipedia:Pandora's box|Pandora's box]]{{wob ref|10840}}
* For a while, Brandon and [[Isaac Stewart]] were planning on making a picture book based on the story, with Isaac's art.{{wob ref|13163}} Due to creative differences with the potential publisher, the idea was temporarily shelved, although there are still plans to make a series of picture books based on [[Hoid]]'s stories.{{wob ref|14574}}
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