I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened672Please respect copyright.PENANAKZPnFwwLPx
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.672Please respect copyright.PENANAXGCCZ5m4BY
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.672Please respect copyright.PENANApXjZeCM1hO
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just672Please respect copyright.PENANA4JhW3P02gz
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he672Please respect copyright.PENANAm1bVtyZkAp
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me672Please respect copyright.PENANAGvulFWnWJb
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me672Please respect copyright.PENANAasf2O8Sg0j
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.672Please respect copyright.PENANA5BUCNl39ZX
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was672Please respect copyright.PENANAviNsfxGyeA
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken672Please respect copyright.PENANAp5qXwxHVkj
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”672Please respect copyright.PENANA4vb6uOD2X3
I insisted ...672Please respect copyright.PENANAZuP4fgqWX0
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between672Please respect copyright.PENANAk5jK1lMF1w
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much672Please respect copyright.PENANA9e5chNG06f
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”672Please respect copyright.PENANAQXyeoMEuXS
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those672Please respect copyright.PENANAzi91EzpsS0
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.672Please respect copyright.PENANAAtZpD55adX
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the672Please respect copyright.PENANARROHsSiQCX
meaning?”672Please respect copyright.PENANAIhAgSIpVyT
“Yes ...”672Please respect copyright.PENANABzkFoiAl0N
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,672Please respect copyright.PENANAsGVavVuTAO
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure672Please respect copyright.PENANAQXADILASjb
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to672Please respect copyright.PENANAYGANM6ccdf
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”672Please respect copyright.PENANAkNINOr70Ms
“Charged?” I asked.672Please respect copyright.PENANAdEgPhnLfum
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of672Please respect copyright.PENANABs3nzTlRhw
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know672Please respect copyright.PENANAzeVRdVx5Kl
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”672Please respect copyright.PENANA0vucv8N5zG
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.672Please respect copyright.PENANAOxiSCvTH01
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just672Please respect copyright.PENANAijypiNqNFQ
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not672Please respect copyright.PENANA6ir7dVg6wV
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient672Please respect copyright.PENANAVNVIdSkP7q
and do what I ask of you.”672Please respect copyright.PENANA2tD04apsp7
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for672Please respect copyright.PENANAtLxH8eWOBA
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”672Please respect copyright.PENANAUaWVKr3Nw9
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely672Please respect copyright.PENANALrBsSDbtkY
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and672Please respect copyright.PENANAGiJ9RBDtMn
unassertive manner.672Please respect copyright.PENANAjCznkbRMrN
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside672Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1lLpqZFqs
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted672Please respect copyright.PENANAHRUvva1T9O
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in672Please respect copyright.PENANAiVZjrOWUFB
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found672Please respect copyright.PENANAuGmc6S95GP
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of672Please respect copyright.PENANAZtfW54OaeM
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping672Please respect copyright.PENANAGB52SWh3OB
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.672Please respect copyright.PENANAfzas0n6RjH
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings672Please respect copyright.PENANAcsnjYqyReU
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with672Please respect copyright.PENANA5nPRSd2yWx
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few672Please respect copyright.PENANAoBqBnRllc4
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.672Please respect copyright.PENANAMMowK3Q7k9
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required672Please respect copyright.PENANAmBb9NpBITa
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!672Please respect copyright.PENANAD56wIMbDYp
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,672Please respect copyright.PENANAnBTzNVr0ao
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a672Please respect copyright.PENANAuSs64zyR8w
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?672Please respect copyright.PENANAFOgp2Ev8El
It felt so...672Please respect copyright.PENANA8QecR1bNhK
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?672Please respect copyright.PENANA6Fu4XriNsC
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.


