
Asking me in all sorts of ways, but repeatedly nonetheless, who I was or what reason429Please respect copyright.PENANAvl50ShvpjT
could I have to write such things. And after he untied the now even less threatening429Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4g16LMD6S
beast of burden, he helped me find my place on top of its generous back.429Please respect copyright.PENANA8ssi5B0kVI
He then went around it, patting its massive head as he passed quite comfortably in429Please respect copyright.PENANAF4EaVQvWI6
front of it; and then he too took his place to my left.429Please respect copyright.PENANAaJQ7JrQODG
Now, with the both of us sitting side by side and ready to go, he smiled at me429Please respect copyright.PENANAy2KppLSeIA
through the corner of his mouth before shouting for our advance. But the one he429Please respect copyright.PENANAbVyxELnqjU
called ´Gorliochi´ merely let out a howl of sorts... “Quit your blubbering.” He then429Please respect copyright.PENANASPViTjccgm
began to pull those reins on the big beast’s neck repeatedly until finally, the beast429Please respect copyright.PENANAKokhj7Z1My
began to move... “There we go. By the way, you pay no heed to these misbehaviours,429Please respect copyright.PENANABXSFYQYTGi
alright? Ol’ Gorli here likes to act a bit lazy these days.”429Please respect copyright.PENANAPyg60ZniV9
“I have never seen such a creature.”429Please respect copyright.PENANArcAwDOwrQV
“Yeah,” He let out a sad and drawn-out confirmation, “There are not many like him429Please respect copyright.PENANAmuB6Hqdg85
around anymore. Frankly, I would be surprised if we ever encounter another one of his429Please respect copyright.PENANA49HwOn3ArD
kind.” He looked at me and then threw half a smile through the right corner of his429Please respect copyright.PENANAvC9oc4zKWn
mouth; “Now, why don’t you start by telling me what made you write such a thing?429Please respect copyright.PENANAWTrwIGnrUO
And more importantly: what is your real connection to that old fool? You know, he429Please respect copyright.PENANAeB5WWNMJJP
and I; we have been friends for the longest time girl, and I even spoke to him just429Please respect copyright.PENANA2t0xJDaHwd
recently.” He threw a quick look my way, obviously trying to fish for any kind of429Please respect copyright.PENANAOSLnQ8BePs
reaction; “And he has never mentioned a single word about any plans for an adoption.”429Please respect copyright.PENANAfUjTOd8y39
“I am not that used to talking...” I warned, “what I mean is: I have not done it with429Please respect copyright.PENANA3BU7ZepQdd
that many people yet so, I might - how you say - run off at the mouth.”429Please respect copyright.PENANAd6hiJXn5Zf
“Oh? Well then,” he explained through another crooked smile; one that revealed429Please respect copyright.PENANArCScSr6U0R
how few teeth he still had left, and also how big his gums were, “You can be at ease429Please respect copyright.PENANAhgsfessxcr
since I am not that used to listening myself. “Besides,” he continued, “We still have429Please respect copyright.PENANAgy2lCldNof
ways to go, and nothing to do for the whole way but talk to each other. You just go429Please respect copyright.PENANAqfGqK43eXg
on for as much as you like without a worry. I am sure no word will feel unwarranted.”429Please respect copyright.PENANAJSICgdNZWT
“Alright,” I replied nervously, but also thankfully. “I guess it would be better if I just429Please respect copyright.PENANAV1RrcCpmBy
went back to the beginning; to the very first time I opened my eyes...”429Please respect copyright.PENANA7qg56qqR0l
“...” He threw me a look of disbelief, but after that initial scepticism, not once did429Please respect copyright.PENANApqtangn65b
he dare to interrupt me again. Not until I was done with that longest of replies, and429Please respect copyright.PENANATN5o9tf9Ag
by then, we would already be making ourselves comfortable inside his most peculiar429Please respect copyright.PENANAq3ccEgiveI
household...429Please respect copyright.PENANABc0TJYnKEO
“...I slowly opened my eyes, like I had done so many times before, but still, they429Please respect copyright.PENANABSrGZTgmKw
could not trespass that pitch-black. It seemed that yet again I was to be frustrated by429Please respect copyright.PENANAsN6rxyvusJ
blindness, and darkness was to remain as my only company. How long had it been429Please respect copyright.PENANAMC5lD1SKhv
since I first regained consciousness? How much time had already been stolen from429Please respect copyright.PENANAwJHbskIAcp
me? To seemingly punish me even further; I was to endure it all while strapped to a429Please respect copyright.PENANA9io04a2b7M
bed and surrounded by all sorts of sounds and smells that only increased my curiosity,429Please respect copyright.PENANAzVkMCzNgRr
only fuelled my already immeasurable desire to see - what a sentence. Another kind of429Please respect copyright.PENANATYxP5JEpdc
darkness then swept over me as the shadows of frustration and anger began curving all429Please respect copyright.PENANAk3fVOYMpHI
around my mind, slowly turning into large black circles of depression.429Please respect copyright.PENANA4TTTKf3Ayx
And then my body began telling what I could not: my fists clenched involuntarily429Please respect copyright.PENANAcAd6NoABPn
as my tiny arms trembled, my entire strapped body began to twitch and turn429Please respect copyright.PENANAYDULru4eJ7
whichever way, and shortly after my teeth too were showing eagerness in joining429Please respect copyright.PENANAU2IDHfZqCH
that demonstration. I wanted to shout, to scream, to expel all that I was feeling, but429Please respect copyright.PENANAgNUGtECwNm
before my mouth could make its first echo, I began noticing that this time it would429Please respect copyright.PENANAGl8yfW0JDw
be different. The darkness that had always been there in front of me, no matter how429Please respect copyright.PENANAMsAzl6NmAU
much my eyes would widen, began to dissipate and those feelings with it; slowly, they429Please respect copyright.PENANALx5AuvrXZJ
all faded until other doings began to take over.429Please respect copyright.PENANAFi2MM5fxGK
I began moving my head as much as those restraints would allow, and as soon as429Please respect copyright.PENANAx7RRSEvdSx
most of that blurriness left me, I found myself laying down in a poorly lit room.429Please respect copyright.PENANAvFmPcy26gv
All sorts of machinery scattered about, there were also other beds like the one I was429Please respect copyright.PENANAVQbnW7obNt
laying on, most of them empty but a few with others like me. I knew right away they429Please respect copyright.PENANAVMixRHaZnH
were like me.429Please respect copyright.PENANAnYAXG5pcmm