
Asking me in all sorts of ways, but repeatedly nonetheless, who I was or what reason339Please respect copyright.PENANAUvv7k0W03w
could I have to write such things. And after he untied the now even less threatening339Please respect copyright.PENANADXy7YN9q14
beast of burden, he helped me find my place on top of its generous back.339Please respect copyright.PENANASDzO9655EV
He then went around it, patting its massive head as he passed quite comfortably in339Please respect copyright.PENANAJHzxR8ljcq
front of it; and then he too took his place to my left.339Please respect copyright.PENANAxYlhDTDvce
Now, with the both of us sitting side by side and ready to go, he smiled at me339Please respect copyright.PENANAv8PJBb9IPK
through the corner of his mouth before shouting for our advance. But the one he339Please respect copyright.PENANAJGlv6mYQHf
called ´Gorliochi´ merely let out a howl of sorts... “Quit your blubbering.” He then339Please respect copyright.PENANAidT84EpLvl
began to pull those reins on the big beast’s neck repeatedly until finally, the beast339Please respect copyright.PENANAxktbfnqqpq
began to move... “There we go. By the way, you pay no heed to these misbehaviours,339Please respect copyright.PENANACbySgZ4TfP
alright? Ol’ Gorli here likes to act a bit lazy these days.”339Please respect copyright.PENANAvrZgOLykie
“I have never seen such a creature.”339Please respect copyright.PENANAhaJAYjjWoW
“Yeah,” He let out a sad and drawn-out confirmation, “There are not many like him339Please respect copyright.PENANAheqchtEDwL
around anymore. Frankly, I would be surprised if we ever encounter another one of his339Please respect copyright.PENANACDHaxogj5L
kind.” He looked at me and then threw half a smile through the right corner of his339Please respect copyright.PENANAoTgFM6I9EB
mouth; “Now, why don’t you start by telling me what made you write such a thing?339Please respect copyright.PENANApxB6TAHGW7
And more importantly: what is your real connection to that old fool? You know, he339Please respect copyright.PENANAeZWbe6z3nN
and I; we have been friends for the longest time girl, and I even spoke to him just339Please respect copyright.PENANAvUefjCe6c5
recently.” He threw a quick look my way, obviously trying to fish for any kind of339Please respect copyright.PENANAIpHXJM4vvA
reaction; “And he has never mentioned a single word about any plans for an adoption.”339Please respect copyright.PENANAwi2AnSrV8E
“I am not that used to talking...” I warned, “what I mean is: I have not done it with339Please respect copyright.PENANADRDOZPExwp
that many people yet so, I might - how you say - run off at the mouth.”339Please respect copyright.PENANAEWSHDTFwiy
“Oh? Well then,” he explained through another crooked smile; one that revealed339Please respect copyright.PENANAevvlfJDW8h
how few teeth he still had left, and also how big his gums were, “You can be at ease339Please respect copyright.PENANARfV53zvqdb
since I am not that used to listening myself. “Besides,” he continued, “We still have339Please respect copyright.PENANAMfRjjtFnQd
ways to go, and nothing to do for the whole way but talk to each other. You just go339Please respect copyright.PENANA6SCUbINUGX
on for as much as you like without a worry. I am sure no word will feel unwarranted.”339Please respect copyright.PENANAPPKjgxbMyc
“Alright,” I replied nervously, but also thankfully. “I guess it would be better if I just339Please respect copyright.PENANAc8iLdQrLSj
went back to the beginning; to the very first time I opened my eyes...”339Please respect copyright.PENANAh1GXVLhwaP
“...” He threw me a look of disbelief, but after that initial scepticism, not once did339Please respect copyright.PENANAaO1uStdeX1
he dare to interrupt me again. Not until I was done with that longest of replies, and339Please respect copyright.PENANAp4MOBKRTPw
by then, we would already be making ourselves comfortable inside his most peculiar339Please respect copyright.PENANAKqZrgUXV5K
household...339Please respect copyright.PENANAEQ12N6yZzt
“...I slowly opened my eyes, like I had done so many times before, but still, they339Please respect copyright.PENANAfuGhTP3SqS
could not trespass that pitch-black. It seemed that yet again I was to be frustrated by339Please respect copyright.PENANARVjVFUKvqg
blindness, and darkness was to remain as my only company. How long had it been339Please respect copyright.PENANAy1XAoy3tt4
since I first regained consciousness? How much time had already been stolen from339Please respect copyright.PENANA0CHztwBu1l
me? To seemingly punish me even further; I was to endure it all while strapped to a339Please respect copyright.PENANAJqAh4zyoOJ
bed and surrounded by all sorts of sounds and smells that only increased my curiosity,339Please respect copyright.PENANA7v8x1ZuDa5
only fuelled my already immeasurable desire to see - what a sentence. Another kind of339Please respect copyright.PENANAjAUnR9GrDU
darkness then swept over me as the shadows of frustration and anger began curving all339Please respect copyright.PENANAzOZw8BIW4t
around my mind, slowly turning into large black circles of depression.339Please respect copyright.PENANAI2sNRjWVcr
And then my body began telling what I could not: my fists clenched involuntarily339Please respect copyright.PENANADDEXJ5M6VG
as my tiny arms trembled, my entire strapped body began to twitch and turn339Please respect copyright.PENANA1Dc86qaTtD
whichever way, and shortly after my teeth too were showing eagerness in joining339Please respect copyright.PENANAlDYmeVkFiL
that demonstration. I wanted to shout, to scream, to expel all that I was feeling, but339Please respect copyright.PENANAHYAbJNrWFr
before my mouth could make its first echo, I began noticing that this time it would339Please respect copyright.PENANAiWKkap6QVy
be different. The darkness that had always been there in front of me, no matter how339Please respect copyright.PENANAikv9vOfe3z
much my eyes would widen, began to dissipate and those feelings with it; slowly, they339Please respect copyright.PENANA7WkOsPWxyU
all faded until other doings began to take over.339Please respect copyright.PENANA4PhZWUqYmT
I began moving my head as much as those restraints would allow, and as soon as339Please respect copyright.PENANANjIm2I7QB8
most of that blurriness left me, I found myself laying down in a poorly lit room.339Please respect copyright.PENANAkJK4z4A5Cv
All sorts of machinery scattered about, there were also other beds like the one I was339Please respect copyright.PENANAQhSKJ8CX6t
laying on, most of them empty but a few with others like me. I knew right away they339Please respect copyright.PENANAPlsGdkHDE6
were like me.339Please respect copyright.PENANAtxYc3zHINM