
I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened435Please respect copyright.PENANA3qLZhp3ENT
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.435Please respect copyright.PENANAF0meyWeFS6
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.435Please respect copyright.PENANAC3pi6mcehD
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just435Please respect copyright.PENANAKxRy445CeM
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he435Please respect copyright.PENANA00Pe9DwvGz
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me435Please respect copyright.PENANA5NITrRxI4q
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me435Please respect copyright.PENANACdRqAY2AZd
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.435Please respect copyright.PENANAYODI67766b
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was435Please respect copyright.PENANAC1Rmnpi158
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken435Please respect copyright.PENANA9itaLs8aQ6
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”435Please respect copyright.PENANAHdW6xXOPMi
I insisted ...435Please respect copyright.PENANAFqlA2qNtxQ
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between435Please respect copyright.PENANAtyIOWhepUy
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much435Please respect copyright.PENANADnQUdC4TKz
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”435Please respect copyright.PENANATuGbp7xZD9
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those435Please respect copyright.PENANAN9ffxyqUsQ
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.435Please respect copyright.PENANA6DTQhUAqJP
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the435Please respect copyright.PENANApza1ze6G9V
meaning?”435Please respect copyright.PENANA76DM7lZsMH
“Yes ...”435Please respect copyright.PENANADJWzmjoK4w
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,435Please respect copyright.PENANAefdHtrrcg7
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure435Please respect copyright.PENANAVHoCZ4pMa3
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to435Please respect copyright.PENANASFCnOdOyti
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”435Please respect copyright.PENANAe29h0hxq0l
“Charged?” I asked.435Please respect copyright.PENANAqO9ISwesWU
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of435Please respect copyright.PENANAW1kI1RQ8Z6
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know435Please respect copyright.PENANAyn3UUYkQLJ
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”435Please respect copyright.PENANA3nWwvyBG8c
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.435Please respect copyright.PENANA3KYyFePXK2
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just435Please respect copyright.PENANAhZaF5S42Hb
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not435Please respect copyright.PENANA0CqpNniVPt
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient435Please respect copyright.PENANAFMRoEidaEy
and do what I ask of you.”435Please respect copyright.PENANAa3BxQEzm7P
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for435Please respect copyright.PENANAzXfIg7HQjJ
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”435Please respect copyright.PENANAwWEYZAzZXV
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely435Please respect copyright.PENANAj9VhuIlCJl
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and435Please respect copyright.PENANAm3mO1G0qrk
unassertive manner.435Please respect copyright.PENANAdbm34zQG3c
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside435Please respect copyright.PENANAjNboG4kc16
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted435Please respect copyright.PENANAqh8QIXsFDw
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in435Please respect copyright.PENANAAtmXTcGRfr
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found435Please respect copyright.PENANAsQkoNd64Tp
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of435Please respect copyright.PENANAktKUQWcKBL
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping435Please respect copyright.PENANAggxaNUDm3F
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.435Please respect copyright.PENANAw8kanjNavM
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings435Please respect copyright.PENANAweHZAt4AS9
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with435Please respect copyright.PENANAkMNQmTz8oy
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few435Please respect copyright.PENANAGvFQPXa7zT
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.435Please respect copyright.PENANAdwAjQ2XQnn
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required435Please respect copyright.PENANA04AE4e80vR
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!435Please respect copyright.PENANAQ7YoqPV9RU
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,435Please respect copyright.PENANA41cixHUfSh
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a435Please respect copyright.PENANAF5qlI4rBx7
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?435Please respect copyright.PENANAliF7w2aFsR
It felt so...435Please respect copyright.PENANA8Cs839XKWk
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?435Please respect copyright.PENANAy1Ju4PQ0Xf
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.