One night there was a fire in the palace of the Empress. The little people carried water in buckets as big as thimbles, but the fire grew and grew. They woke me up and I ran to the palace. I put out the fire in three minutes, but I did it in a way that the Empress did not like. After that she never went into those rooms again. Many great lords at the court were my enemies now. They said that I was a danger to the country. One night a friend came to me in secret. He told me that the Emperor wanted to make me blind. I thanked him and ran away that night to Blefuscu.