
I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened379Please respect copyright.PENANAluTUqkNIXe
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.379Please respect copyright.PENANAJK6xN4fRDC
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.379Please respect copyright.PENANAy599WP2qCn
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just379Please respect copyright.PENANAN0QFxLFHi1
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he379Please respect copyright.PENANAuziFKQnndC
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me379Please respect copyright.PENANA7uVaAsfPkz
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me379Please respect copyright.PENANALerOLzVy9v
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.379Please respect copyright.PENANA5AgdB5ZBYr
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was379Please respect copyright.PENANA7qMbIaAL4t
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken379Please respect copyright.PENANAtaeIJbZpii
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”379Please respect copyright.PENANAxwqL5VBDum
I insisted ...379Please respect copyright.PENANApRA38fXlve
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between379Please respect copyright.PENANAeRB0pRGMJQ
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much379Please respect copyright.PENANAvlK9xxByWm
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”379Please respect copyright.PENANAzTipLrkXHn
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those379Please respect copyright.PENANAoDcSmXLEPH
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.379Please respect copyright.PENANAYh6lfQGACB
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the379Please respect copyright.PENANAsE1hy7rAZp
meaning?”379Please respect copyright.PENANAnxluCjdAGZ
“Yes ...”379Please respect copyright.PENANAQc4tKojHJY
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,379Please respect copyright.PENANAcTdEAHWTI9
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure379Please respect copyright.PENANAg5CypC3Tw7
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to379Please respect copyright.PENANAYtaisxY8wV
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”379Please respect copyright.PENANACH9O1KUVGr
“Charged?” I asked.379Please respect copyright.PENANAFPnyXbobgd
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of379Please respect copyright.PENANAOf6CM7no7R
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know379Please respect copyright.PENANAAqyP5SXF08
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”379Please respect copyright.PENANACZQhv8OgYf
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.379Please respect copyright.PENANALewg6zexNj
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just379Please respect copyright.PENANAd30SAeNRuX
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not379Please respect copyright.PENANA3TBw9CtOFI
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient379Please respect copyright.PENANAPR9pW8gYa5
and do what I ask of you.”379Please respect copyright.PENANAjLy8NVXMU3
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for379Please respect copyright.PENANASmDTbMajLL
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”379Please respect copyright.PENANAJfe72RcGIn
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely379Please respect copyright.PENANAN8TqLdoVjF
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and379Please respect copyright.PENANAlxScZ3Yuzc
unassertive manner.379Please respect copyright.PENANANlmoBWCZis
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside379Please respect copyright.PENANAzUWsQBtlRC
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted379Please respect copyright.PENANANJWGaasUxI
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in379Please respect copyright.PENANAwHkXwaDyaA
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found379Please respect copyright.PENANACwQdkhrpzq
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of379Please respect copyright.PENANAxGRw2WS9oq
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping379Please respect copyright.PENANA1QLVA9YM9Y
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.379Please respect copyright.PENANAqyg6qXXHEA
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings379Please respect copyright.PENANA1kREk5EiCh
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with379Please respect copyright.PENANAvCX9hB4bXk
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few379Please respect copyright.PENANAIYktHWbNLz
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.379Please respect copyright.PENANA6aNnBZzZG6
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required379Please respect copyright.PENANAaW0CFzvZH7
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!379Please respect copyright.PENANA1dEFDrSb4d
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,379Please respect copyright.PENANAAwORlhNbRI
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a379Please respect copyright.PENANAmvfNErUru7
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?379Please respect copyright.PENANA49wGaNwt1Z
It felt so...379Please respect copyright.PENANARa0n1iLdaP
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?379Please respect copyright.PENANAA3NDjOPNM6
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.