Difference between revisions of "The Girl Who Looked Up"

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 they 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. She steals some light and takes it back to her village. This act causes the storms to come and destroy the wall.