During the Middle Ages, the Morisco Kingdom was isolated in the forest. In this place the inhabitants were dwarfs, a male adult use to have half a meter and ten centimeters. His legs were fourty-five centimeters, the body thirty-five centimeters, the neck five centimeters. The head was oval because it was twenty-five centimeters high by fifty centimeters long. Women were smaller than men. The Morisco Kingdom had five cities and was ruled by King Juarez. Your Majesty appointed the mayors of the cities. Every five years he asked people how was the management of the mayors. If people approved it, they continued to govern the city for another five years. But if the population criticized it, the mayor would be replaced by a new one. Temptation city was the most problematic of this kingdom. Many poor people lived in this place, several had no houses, the ones who had built it and lived in shacks and starved. For being a violent place several people moved from this place. The greatest city’s villain was the mayor Duke Enéas. He never helped people and use to steal the money sent by the king to help them. This man was the only boss of the place so he explored his employees. This man's castle was built near the forest. In the forest was the Silver Palm Tree, from the branches were made perfumes and the delicious sunrise tea. Of the fruits accompanied with other ingredients was made the sweet in pieces Aurora, the favorite dessert of the inhabitants of the kingdom. In the forest there were many Silver Palm Trees and the duke use to send his servants to cut them and clear the place. Men, women, children, and the elderly worked fifteen hours a day in exchange for a silver coin. Men cut Palm Trees and carried them to the castle. In the shack, women, children and the elderly, under the orders of foremen prepared the perfumes, teas and sweets. As it had been five years since Enéas was mayor, King Juarez could soon replace him with another. Then he ordered the soldiers to threaten people, because if he was dismissed by the king he would leave the city. He would not hire anyone to work and without money everyone would starve. Desiring to please people Your Majesty sent messengers to announce that in the following weekend he would visit Temptation. He would make a contest of poetry and chronicles and the first place would win a hundred gold coins. Few were interested in the contest because only a few people could read and write. Lolita, an eighteen-year-old girl was excited, she
worked as a servant at Count Genésio's house. Luckily, she learned how to read and write while watching the teacher teaching his boss's children. In the Morisco kingdom, the laws and books were written in sheepskin and they used blackberry sap to write with feathers of vulture's tail. At dinner the girl said that she needed to buy a sheepskin to write the story, as she was sure she would win the contest prize. Happy, she would help her family and friends. Laughing, Laurentino, Lolita’s father, said they could get a lamb in the old mill of Dara Valley. The girl and her brother, Murilo, were frightened, because in this place lived the dragon Uomo. Laurentino said that the existence of this monster was a myth and asked if Lolita and Murilo would help him capture the lamb. Excited, they both agreed to help their father, so on Sunday they would eat roast lamb. They agreed to go to Dara Valley the next night because there would be a full moon. The two brothers slept just a little since they were thinking about the adventures of facing the dragon. The hours passed slowly and when it got dark Laurentino took the old horse and put it in the cart and accompanied by his children went to the valley. In the brightness of the full moon they appreciated the beauty of the forest. Some sheeps lived in this place because they belonged to an old man who lived alone in the old mill. After his death, those animals remained in the forest. After forty minutes they saw a lamb from a distance. Anxiously, they ran and came close to it. Suddenly, they got startled by hearing a loud noise. They almost fainted when they saw Dragon Uomo. The animal's body had the shape of a half circle, about ten feet long and six feet high. The tail was thick and about ten feet long. The neck was five meters. With his huge mouth it could eat a calf giving only one bite, had two black eyes and two large ears. Several sheeps approached the monster. Amazed, the three saw Dragon Uomo caressing them, because they were their pets. Laurentino said that the big beast was tamed, so he asked his children to distract them while he would pick up a lamb. Lolita was scared, Murilo being brave went help his father. The boy took three small stones and threw one at Dragon Uomo. The animal looked at him and the boy tossed two more stones at him. Terrified, he began to run as the dragon began to chase after him. Murilo climbed a tree and fearing that her brother would be injured, the girl hit the tail of the beast with a piece of wood. Feeling pain the monster wagged its tail and threw the girl into a large rock. Luckily, several sheeps went near the dragon Uomo and more calmly the monster forgot the young people and began caressing the animals with its tongue. After a few minutes the animals and the dragon left, Murilo got off from the tree and asked if his sister was well. Lolita replied that she only had a fright. Smiling, Laurentino announced he had taken the lamb, so they
returned home. On Friday night in the barnyard two adults killed the lamb. On Saturday, Lolita wrote the chronicle on the animal's skin. Laurentino invited some people to lunch at his place, for he would make roast lamb. While they were having lunch the girl screamed as she bit into a piece of hard meat. Desmayed, she looked at herself in the mirror and realised that the night the dragon's tail Uomo threw her into the rock, because of the impact, some of her teeth cracked. But now they had fallen, she lost two teeth from the bottom of her mouth and three teeth from the top. Disappointed, she cried because people would call her "tooth-gapped". Murilo encouraged her, because she should read the chronicle to the king, for if she won she would help many people. At two a.m., all the inhabitants went to the central square of Temptation city. While greeting King Juarez and Duke Enéas the royal guard surrounded the place. Your Majesty asked the residents how the mayor's administration was. Everyone was quiet, the king told them to stop being fearful, because men of his trust investigated the city hall. They found out that the mayor was exploiting people and stealing Money from them. He ordered the soldiers to arrest Juarez, so they could judge him and punish him for his crimes and smiling, presented Count Orlando to the population, the city's new mayor. At five p.m., King Juarez declared he wanted to hear the poems and chronicles written by the residents. However, fearing the mayor Enéas, they did not write anything. Boldly Lolita presented herself to the Majesty and began to read the chronicle:
CITY TEMPTATION: OUR PEOPLE
My boss's children are going to apply for a chronicle contest. I also want to participate in it, but I'm not educated and intellectual like them. I do not mind being called a redneck or illiterate. My name is Lolita and I'm eighteen. But as I am tenatious, I am going to write my chronicle: people talk about deforestation. Everyone needs to preserve the environment so we can continue to survive. We are happy when we hear the birds singing and when we see the beauty of flowers. Wow! But speaking of flowers, we can not leave clean water in vases and old pots, because the mosquito reproduces and transmits dengue and yellow fever. Our mayor boasts of his works, though he does not talk about the misery and homelessness of the poor population of the city. Please, King Juarez, choose a decent politician to govern Temptation city, to reduce the poverty and violence of this place. So I will pretend to be a foreigner and say how I like it here: J’aime Temptation city.
Lolita won the one hundred gold coins, helped her father, relatives
and friends with the money. Count Orlando made changes in the city hall and stopped logging the forest. They would grow Silver Palm Trees and other foods. He decided to continue the operation of the factory in the castle that was expropriated of Enéas. The employees would work eight hours, be payed two silver coins a day and have Sundays off. Children and teenagers would no longer work, because they should go to school to study. The old people would rest, the mayor would retire them. Thirty days later on Sunday they had a party in the town square to honor Mayor Count Orlando. Dorival, a twenty-year-old boy, clerk of the mayor approached Lolita, congratulated her for defying the villain Enéas and said he was in love with her. She was ashamed to be poor and toothless, she did not deserve his love. Smiling, he asked to kiss her, because he wanted to be the owner of her heart. As she loved him they both hugged and kissed each other.
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