
I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened359Please respect copyright.PENANA7VuLXSdgAT
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.359Please respect copyright.PENANAfe28ckIw4W
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.359Please respect copyright.PENANAUMuqpa3voB
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just359Please respect copyright.PENANAfhI9J8IyQ3
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he359Please respect copyright.PENANAnVX8F0z2xi
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me359Please respect copyright.PENANANI5sWR573s
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me359Please respect copyright.PENANASctfunEOWX
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.359Please respect copyright.PENANAqzR8iPeOns
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was359Please respect copyright.PENANACkhPuAocm2
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken359Please respect copyright.PENANAvg9UlnGOr2
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”359Please respect copyright.PENANARbRIrfQxxF
I insisted ...359Please respect copyright.PENANAqZlLhwBgFM
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between359Please respect copyright.PENANAZFrm2bDCFr
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much359Please respect copyright.PENANARvGjsFRtBD
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”359Please respect copyright.PENANAJQJWJzNAMC
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those359Please respect copyright.PENANACwkzwFreWF
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.359Please respect copyright.PENANAORNJLtQXfW
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the359Please respect copyright.PENANAhbfdoP5uF9
meaning?”359Please respect copyright.PENANAN6OFSegyBO
“Yes ...”359Please respect copyright.PENANAlXGh4XNf8U
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,359Please respect copyright.PENANAp7BtCzWdy1
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure359Please respect copyright.PENANAuPyKPDWGWl
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to359Please respect copyright.PENANAGYeeQPO7qm
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”359Please respect copyright.PENANAJ1JaxobQCO
“Charged?” I asked.359Please respect copyright.PENANAI4rxy9EKMW
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of359Please respect copyright.PENANAruRQPE3xAl
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know359Please respect copyright.PENANABXHva19jZJ
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”359Please respect copyright.PENANABEm4RXwESn
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.359Please respect copyright.PENANATUEAWfbElq
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just359Please respect copyright.PENANAWj5iJrG0Hy
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not359Please respect copyright.PENANAo8Ms68AjMN
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient359Please respect copyright.PENANAbt9kRDwMRP
and do what I ask of you.”359Please respect copyright.PENANACQswWtGrr6
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for359Please respect copyright.PENANAxpEva7ZW2c
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”359Please respect copyright.PENANAgih3Ub1l36
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely359Please respect copyright.PENANA2sBpH21F3Q
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and359Please respect copyright.PENANAMlvqJXSKqd
unassertive manner.359Please respect copyright.PENANAMcZrITJkGh
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside359Please respect copyright.PENANAKZlADJrsWP
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted359Please respect copyright.PENANADl1qD9XpED
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in359Please respect copyright.PENANAJw0pv4EKT1
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found359Please respect copyright.PENANAYmSwF4FG53
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of359Please respect copyright.PENANAEdh8rlj2zs
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping359Please respect copyright.PENANAngk6d7b0By
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.359Please respect copyright.PENANAnMq6SYj5q1
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings359Please respect copyright.PENANAwreVQwzoHk
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with359Please respect copyright.PENANAujjZtrL6Nc
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few359Please respect copyright.PENANAFMKD1tq9k3
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.359Please respect copyright.PENANAnyJVvaqU0f
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required359Please respect copyright.PENANAwpP32sELMR
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!359Please respect copyright.PENANAURPlgkizD3
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,359Please respect copyright.PENANAtl6WfmClp9
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a359Please respect copyright.PENANAdvVFog2pOb
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?359Please respect copyright.PENANAn1suLpizSt
It felt so...359Please respect copyright.PENANArEPHdEf3W8
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?359Please respect copyright.PENANAjcGourHAhB
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.