
I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened335Please respect copyright.PENANAhccp4kT4xb
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.335Please respect copyright.PENANABhsKgRIjPA
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.335Please respect copyright.PENANAgt7yhMUvqu
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just335Please respect copyright.PENANAn5nsJCWLou
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he335Please respect copyright.PENANAKq6Deax3bW
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me335Please respect copyright.PENANAho3cHxmAKE
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me335Please respect copyright.PENANAUfM3I06uyE
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.335Please respect copyright.PENANA8Flt1gUe0e
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was335Please respect copyright.PENANAmrlfbwA0fD
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken335Please respect copyright.PENANAehYo65RlAH
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”335Please respect copyright.PENANAWnQVqmzAR7
I insisted ...335Please respect copyright.PENANAg7eZpr5FkK
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between335Please respect copyright.PENANABr9q5PflXd
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much335Please respect copyright.PENANA03scr0kugm
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”335Please respect copyright.PENANAg6BggiGk7H
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those335Please respect copyright.PENANArIjd7Yb5YV
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.335Please respect copyright.PENANACbPqTwG5bl
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the335Please respect copyright.PENANANzOPNW4tgS
meaning?”335Please respect copyright.PENANA2Alo6cmZCM
“Yes ...”335Please respect copyright.PENANA9r4dPC8K4R
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,335Please respect copyright.PENANAsK47VgquNT
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure335Please respect copyright.PENANAlzHme0Cq24
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to335Please respect copyright.PENANATf441Sjuvu
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”335Please respect copyright.PENANAqBzmnVfzjR
“Charged?” I asked.335Please respect copyright.PENANAJ8eAvdFzmh
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of335Please respect copyright.PENANAa3OSYmDSB9
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know335Please respect copyright.PENANAyqMXoC6ly3
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”335Please respect copyright.PENANAzuLw67qr7Q
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.335Please respect copyright.PENANAoQdAPdGS8g
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just335Please respect copyright.PENANAVJCnKnxMy4
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not335Please respect copyright.PENANAOA4sO1CzRu
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient335Please respect copyright.PENANAeEcYku0y3h
and do what I ask of you.”335Please respect copyright.PENANAzflGTDWyhp
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for335Please respect copyright.PENANA1ltTCQSTXt
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”335Please respect copyright.PENANAZSHwzSVMdf
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely335Please respect copyright.PENANA0vZRwyvMaL
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and335Please respect copyright.PENANALgTRc4Mqur
unassertive manner.335Please respect copyright.PENANAE0CG9libtr
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside335Please respect copyright.PENANAZP6PTba8xs
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted335Please respect copyright.PENANAE4jw4KEp2Q
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in335Please respect copyright.PENANABmX7BkuiMH
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found335Please respect copyright.PENANARVs2fijjKv
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of335Please respect copyright.PENANADoX86bpa7G
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping335Please respect copyright.PENANApuUS328g1D
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.335Please respect copyright.PENANAOp2pAs7QjJ
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings335Please respect copyright.PENANAaYaO5nqoHX
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with335Please respect copyright.PENANA1vgj19zcMW
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few335Please respect copyright.PENANADn6Obyt78J
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.335Please respect copyright.PENANASB1udzm16e
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required335Please respect copyright.PENANAfdfQbnW00a
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!335Please respect copyright.PENANAXaAMA6efwC
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,335Please respect copyright.PENANArk31vZnhFl
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a335Please respect copyright.PENANABBWx4XWqWE
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?335Please respect copyright.PENANArCqkLWJQw3
It felt so...335Please respect copyright.PENANAXCLfZ3gRiC
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?335Please respect copyright.PENANA5BmhUOapwz
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.