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Big Dome
by Marta Randall

First Things First
First thing first, in Big Dome it is all times with danger. There are light
boxes up high on top like in Safe Place but in Big Dome it makes light
sometimes and sometimes not, you can't tell. In Big Dome it is raining at
all times but the most of danger in Big Dome is the growing stuff that
eats, it is called Weed I hate it because it kills. Also are
moving-by-themselves things, they are creatures they eat growing stuff
and sometimes they try to eat me but I am crafty-fast and sometimes I eat
them. I do not hate them but I hate Weed because it tries to kill me more.

My name is Runner I run it is what I do. There are two Safe Places with
Big Dome between and I run from Near Safe Place to Far Safe Place; I
bring stories, I bring the magics of Far Safe Place that heal or the magics
of Near Safe Place that taste good, this is called Trade. My brother was
Runner and my father and my grandmother I did not know her. Weed ate
my brother as Weed ate my grandmother but my father had a sickness
and Near Safe Place people would not help him and he died so only I am
Runner now.
Safe Places people hate me because I run through Big Dome for they
think Big Dome is evil and they will not go there for themselves, but for
Trade they make me run through Big Dome and for this they hate me and
think that I am evil also. They are foolish, for if I do not run they will have
no healing magic in Near Safe Place and no good-tasting spice in Far Safe
Place and this they know. When one time I was sick I needed Far Safe
Place healing magic, they talked much talking but they gave it to me
anyway. They have to for only I am Runner and my Girl is too tiny to run
Big Dome.
This story is of one run that I ran, I will tell it to you it because it is my
story and because it is true.
Big Dome bottom is flat and round on the bottom and all around there
is Wall, coming up and over and down again, like a bowl inside. Halfway
up Wall at Near Safe Place there is a flatness like a lip in Big Dome Wall
this is Inbetween where I stay; behind Inbetween there is another wall and
behind that is Near Safe Place like a bubble on Wall poking out, but it is
not out of Big Dome and it is not in Big Dome, it a Safe Place by itself
alone. Inbetween is all made-stuff, nothing growing, nothing with colors I
do not love it but it is mine I live there with my Girl. My Girl has a mother
and a father but I do not know them for people gave her to me as they
gave me to my father, gave my brother to my father, gave my father to my
grandmother . My Girl has pretty hair long like wind she has long legs they
are strong and skinny she will be a good Runner when she is grown.
One day at Inbetween we are eating fruits; Safe Places people have fear
of everything in Big Dome and will not eat the fruits so only Runners eat
them they are good. We like the round ones that crunch and sometimes
there are yellow ones that are soft and sweet inside, we find them at Wall
below Inbetween.
Sometimes too I catch Big Dome creatures, tiny ones, they are good to eat