
I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened336Please respect copyright.PENANArqXlD4QhHb
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.336Please respect copyright.PENANAWhSY4kbURH
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.336Please respect copyright.PENANAmxLokBocpy
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just336Please respect copyright.PENANAKIlPQUTuiO
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he336Please respect copyright.PENANACWRP9CiDhP
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me336Please respect copyright.PENANAGYFcfEZEEH
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me336Please respect copyright.PENANAb5jQnxbg94
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.336Please respect copyright.PENANAyifb4Obmnu
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was336Please respect copyright.PENANAOOrBY9v0EX
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken336Please respect copyright.PENANAMWK17WBdVq
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”336Please respect copyright.PENANADazzmjgvxv
I insisted ...336Please respect copyright.PENANAk1VRbeRAOS
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between336Please respect copyright.PENANArAa7vkziFj
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much336Please respect copyright.PENANATKrJRgPlUH
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”336Please respect copyright.PENANAQVka4dVzuA
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those336Please respect copyright.PENANAn2417Ya2IT
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.336Please respect copyright.PENANA7ywjLomCXd
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the336Please respect copyright.PENANAmGDPGvrbvO
meaning?”336Please respect copyright.PENANApOeuf8MkBj
“Yes ...”336Please respect copyright.PENANA9xl5rWKo5l
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,336Please respect copyright.PENANANypoNGKMF3
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure336Please respect copyright.PENANAfI7tfOK4So
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to336Please respect copyright.PENANANC5SC3EWiE
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”336Please respect copyright.PENANATOR7hkCvWV
“Charged?” I asked.336Please respect copyright.PENANAHFnmdQ6E0N
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of336Please respect copyright.PENANAU6dx18zaIr
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know336Please respect copyright.PENANAixZvQyPItm
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”336Please respect copyright.PENANADuOsR07wBL
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.336Please respect copyright.PENANAgdZ6akzNn8
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just336Please respect copyright.PENANAjGWecZ5AqI
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not336Please respect copyright.PENANAia3HXhfHE1
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient336Please respect copyright.PENANAAx1C7bGtop
and do what I ask of you.”336Please respect copyright.PENANAc31b2RR9Nb
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for336Please respect copyright.PENANAcuA12GEo0P
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”336Please respect copyright.PENANA5lYvttOx0w
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely336Please respect copyright.PENANAuewbSqme55
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and336Please respect copyright.PENANAol8lWz9c73
unassertive manner.336Please respect copyright.PENANAfbvERPsbBo
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside336Please respect copyright.PENANA3oLoyhExVu
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted336Please respect copyright.PENANA3xbCmMs8Nl
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in336Please respect copyright.PENANABPFUHQoR60
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found336Please respect copyright.PENANAiK5Ug0BP6T
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of336Please respect copyright.PENANARmavHyEi5U
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping336Please respect copyright.PENANAAcAdaU69Gr
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.336Please respect copyright.PENANARNZlt5xsqQ
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings336Please respect copyright.PENANA4QS61EXlyN
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with336Please respect copyright.PENANAZomWS2NtAb
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few336Please respect copyright.PENANAMePEACCoc0
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.336Please respect copyright.PENANATr84cTfuKp
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required336Please respect copyright.PENANAbBFN5udRpO
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!336Please respect copyright.PENANAqR4ReXAdPO
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,336Please respect copyright.PENANAXLOmbmazzd
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a336Please respect copyright.PENANAk3ahIkCVuW
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?336Please respect copyright.PENANA7RKH0W1K73
It felt so...336Please respect copyright.PENANAEljx1M6UnK
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?336Please respect copyright.PENANAjcDaORe5AT
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.