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Hello everyone.

I'm Olympia.

Thank you for being here with me in this wonderful place called Lights Out Library.

And I have a great story to tell you.

Tonight, we are seated in a lost temple in the heart of a forest,

and everything is quiet around us.

Only the sound of an ancient fountain with its water lilies breaks the silence just a little bit as the sun slowly sets.

This is the right time to gather around and listen to some stories.

The first one begins long, long ago, when the world did not exist, and there was only darkness.

The darkness you can picture if you gently close your eyes and let yourself go.

Here's a story about how the world was created.

Before time began to exist,

the world was just an endless dark corner,

and the only sound that existed at the time was the sound of its waves,

but no one could hear them, because there was no earth, nor heaven, not even time.

There was a giant serpent, a cobra, that floated in the waters.

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