Jenna Loves Pain

Dad!

Michael! Michael, I'm here.

It's okay, it's okay. What, what? What is it?

It was so scary. It was soscary.

The shadow again, huh?

Computer, aluminum.

I mean, lu...

Illuminate?

That's what I said. Make it brighter.

Computer, illuminate.

Sometimes I just feel

like it's you, me and Mommy

out here in the middle of all this nothing,

and it's gonna eat us.

And nobody would ever know.

I hate being scared.

I know. But I wonder

if you hate the idea of being scared

more than you probably arescared.

Am I right?

Dad, I'm too little to know what that means.

Can I just sleep with all the lights on?

Sure, you could do that.

But what if I told you that a girl about your age

with one single tiny light

changed the entire universe?

Nuh-uh.

Forever.

Nuh-uh!

You want to hear the story of the girl who made the stars?

Yes.1,000 centuries ago in Africa...

...the first people celebrated the Sun.

Back then there were no stars in the night sky,

so when the dark came, it made them afraid.

They gave their fear a name:

the night beast.

Village law said no first person

was allowed to travel at night.

Now, the first people were hunter-gatherers

just beginning to farm.

And farming the same land over and over again...

Well, everybody got together

and just freaked out.

What are we going to do?

Oh, my.

We'll have no land left to farm.

But one girl said to the elders...

We can go past the far mountain.

We can find new land.

But the elder said...

That journey would take longer than a day.

Longer than two days, and that would anger

the night beast.

And then he said to her...

Girl, go play.

"Go play"? Are you kidding me?

This is what I'm trying to say.

But that's just rude.Ah, ah.

Can I finish, please?