
I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened391Please respect copyright.PENANARTS4zeCOVi
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.391Please respect copyright.PENANANaYpF83UqU
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.391Please respect copyright.PENANAx44JcujqA8
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just391Please respect copyright.PENANAWTNJ0G9MSV
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he391Please respect copyright.PENANAwZNAe8N3Vl
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me391Please respect copyright.PENANAoNdOCiDvST
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me391Please respect copyright.PENANA53D1lvUMj3
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.391Please respect copyright.PENANAi5u03Ge7Bo
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was391Please respect copyright.PENANAD1oRwYDi65
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken391Please respect copyright.PENANAxo8Rp98MS2
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”391Please respect copyright.PENANAmViU32OCc3
I insisted ...391Please respect copyright.PENANAnzTKE379Vo
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between391Please respect copyright.PENANAyUPSdhhIkD
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much391Please respect copyright.PENANAk8rQqSN8xS
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”391Please respect copyright.PENANAwxgMheGq1b
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those391Please respect copyright.PENANAuWdw9I0YQ0
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.391Please respect copyright.PENANApPfJYRyOCL
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the391Please respect copyright.PENANA5GPNcunZPK
meaning?”391Please respect copyright.PENANALQFcKBjMez
“Yes ...”391Please respect copyright.PENANAwh7SPn27TI
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,391Please respect copyright.PENANAajl185Zmr6
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure391Please respect copyright.PENANAUNOTDl5AvB
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to391Please respect copyright.PENANAePSKRFhuRC
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”391Please respect copyright.PENANAXjQ7WFDiUZ
“Charged?” I asked.391Please respect copyright.PENANAv5vMn34eIl
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of391Please respect copyright.PENANAmi0GI1Zde2
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know391Please respect copyright.PENANAKEJndUndz1
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”391Please respect copyright.PENANAoAAdI2px4N
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.391Please respect copyright.PENANAOIOSFKjWAb
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just391Please respect copyright.PENANAhxZJBEIKFO
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not391Please respect copyright.PENANAIPrrlz6kTP
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient391Please respect copyright.PENANAwuOQb9bHcz
and do what I ask of you.”391Please respect copyright.PENANAo6ZsRqn7xN
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for391Please respect copyright.PENANAa9UmvlELKr
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”391Please respect copyright.PENANAVixtCyBjsb
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely391Please respect copyright.PENANA9ahfeDRBQ1
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and391Please respect copyright.PENANA5nXwGc63sr
unassertive manner.391Please respect copyright.PENANAfvO6S1qYVp
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside391Please respect copyright.PENANAeMh1PojltO
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted391Please respect copyright.PENANAkJObZmZy3P
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in391Please respect copyright.PENANAQrR7XYtRst
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found391Please respect copyright.PENANATc7WM9ZrQ0
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of391Please respect copyright.PENANA0IuXweord8
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping391Please respect copyright.PENANAIBGRiZZEpp
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.391Please respect copyright.PENANAPVcRkPaM4P
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings391Please respect copyright.PENANAw0htvvUtqf
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with391Please respect copyright.PENANAQIkMUFiNaH
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few391Please respect copyright.PENANAfHa9WVcpLl
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.391Please respect copyright.PENANABDiOsdCr6H
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required391Please respect copyright.PENANAp264Nrzszy
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!391Please respect copyright.PENANAZx0BmQGKuI
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,391Please respect copyright.PENANArjiiqob1M6
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a391Please respect copyright.PENANAbsljqlaFTw
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?391Please respect copyright.PENANA7AJwTCv9Oh
It felt so...391Please respect copyright.PENANAQaP7kOrU8f
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?391Please respect copyright.PENANADIXsXgpAbY
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.