
I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened355Please respect copyright.PENANAUAIGUEzGr1
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.355Please respect copyright.PENANAprHkggSRXC
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.355Please respect copyright.PENANABX4gLoRmDL
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just355Please respect copyright.PENANASFk2fzoEDR
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he355Please respect copyright.PENANAX9ZSFSNqVb
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me355Please respect copyright.PENANArHFdty4Wfc
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me355Please respect copyright.PENANA2fVLKPZ7Ig
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.355Please respect copyright.PENANAyRJ4gZzmle
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was355Please respect copyright.PENANAdvdwxGH1Fv
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken355Please respect copyright.PENANA2Vmbo8Zbdw
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”355Please respect copyright.PENANADnz1hOqcy7
I insisted ...355Please respect copyright.PENANAj0qUWqaaP1
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between355Please respect copyright.PENANAhVb3CRoLTx
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much355Please respect copyright.PENANAMagZdvcjuZ
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”355Please respect copyright.PENANAZt83YhUb7Q
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those355Please respect copyright.PENANAFXwpjOYLhX
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.355Please respect copyright.PENANAYsyaJR3KDj
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the355Please respect copyright.PENANAM1K1FXQssV
meaning?”355Please respect copyright.PENANAgB4NVHe1Nk
“Yes ...”355Please respect copyright.PENANAT8qi4rvc2b
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,355Please respect copyright.PENANABBLymLmWUA
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure355Please respect copyright.PENANAlV1ZNbOzgH
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to355Please respect copyright.PENANA6LCcaPunVM
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”355Please respect copyright.PENANAiaY0zT2VEf
“Charged?” I asked.355Please respect copyright.PENANAFkgVusyNks
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of355Please respect copyright.PENANAoOWHeg96M9
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know355Please respect copyright.PENANAcUwcsUQgpQ
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”355Please respect copyright.PENANAw8R9chFmwl
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.355Please respect copyright.PENANAO7FitrWgNr
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just355Please respect copyright.PENANAT2Bq6MDlAu
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not355Please respect copyright.PENANAZ7XQ86F7Pv
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient355Please respect copyright.PENANAj1ys89n7jl
and do what I ask of you.”355Please respect copyright.PENANARnnVbazXst
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for355Please respect copyright.PENANAxzGf38mY1I
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”355Please respect copyright.PENANAddhoxwZ30P
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely355Please respect copyright.PENANAsbaRCM1F0r
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and355Please respect copyright.PENANA5CJVZZfwQv
unassertive manner.355Please respect copyright.PENANA9CwzhuY4L2
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside355Please respect copyright.PENANAnCPaKF0FHE
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted355Please respect copyright.PENANAG1lOwWd1EP
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in355Please respect copyright.PENANAQ4ejtlIbf0
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found355Please respect copyright.PENANAOwH1ugLJJX
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of355Please respect copyright.PENANAkPh7eIWkUJ
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping355Please respect copyright.PENANA3DgTT5vsYP
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.355Please respect copyright.PENANAC6l0cSgDw4
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings355Please respect copyright.PENANAXLXG0FTtS4
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with355Please respect copyright.PENANAE7cnil2ZdZ
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few355Please respect copyright.PENANAugIvJF78p3
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.355Please respect copyright.PENANAtyqBjvTMca
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required355Please respect copyright.PENANAZVokP3rMnI
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!355Please respect copyright.PENANACYQSx3Bq6x
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,355Please respect copyright.PENANAYsgfQOrjGR
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a355Please respect copyright.PENANA8OmWh38PWE
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?355Please respect copyright.PENANAZm3TZwiKAC
It felt so...355Please respect copyright.PENANAlua2I56Bet
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?355Please respect copyright.PENANAupFXk5y8eX
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.