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Asking me in all sorts of ways, but repeatedly nonetheless, who I was or what reason418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB36yydH3d2
could I have to write such things. And after he untied the now even less threatening418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUvV6gPoj3
beast of burden, he helped me find my place on top of its generous back.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQogAu20OIE
He then went around it, patting its massive head as he passed quite comfortably in418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhfpXaSGIV
front of it; and then he too took his place to my left.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLSQOMR9B2r
Now, with the both of us sitting side by side and ready to go, he smiled at me418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wYLsLzNpx
through the corner of his mouth before shouting for our advance. But the one he418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3hpQgbRO0
called ´Gorliochi´ merely let out a howl of sorts... “Quit your blubbering.” He then418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwliBGdwDvs
began to pull those reins on the big beast’s neck repeatedly until finally, the beast418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvRhCj9GWK
began to move... “There we go. By the way, you pay no heed to these misbehaviours,418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78vNYHRrnl
alright? Ol’ Gorli here likes to act a bit lazy these days.”418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQgEfIraUI
“I have never seen such a creature.”418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpl8LwXmIP
“Yeah,” He let out a sad and drawn-out confirmation, “There are not many like him418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFiYcWCpiD2
around anymore. Frankly, I would be surprised if we ever encounter another one of his418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9IKc6FUrE
kind.” He looked at me and then threw half a smile through the right corner of his418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQ4dt1jljt
mouth; “Now, why don’t you start by telling me what made you write such a thing?418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0aIhdTjaL1
And more importantly: what is your real connection to that old fool? You know, he418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0CSSNIwpHX
and I; we have been friends for the longest time girl, and I even spoke to him just418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUoeGnDeUW
recently.” He threw a quick look my way, obviously trying to fish for any kind of418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwBf0gTbVR
reaction; “And he has never mentioned a single word about any plans for an adoption.”418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWblQnoGo2
“I am not that used to talking...” I warned, “what I mean is: I have not done it with418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnY9UKJWdnB
that many people yet so, I might - how you say - run off at the mouth.”418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrk9aWSZYff
“Oh? Well then,” he explained through another crooked smile; one that revealed418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1mZHnwKh55
how few teeth he still had left, and also how big his gums were, “You can be at ease418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtm7B6v2dv
since I am not that used to listening myself. “Besides,” he continued, “We still have418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZhqEYnZcf
ways to go, and nothing to do for the whole way but talk to each other. You just go418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBN8JDcEqMk
on for as much as you like without a worry. I am sure no word will feel unwarranted.”418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PDXE7gl0l
“Alright,” I replied nervously, but also thankfully. “I guess it would be better if I just418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtRp3edBUp
went back to the beginning; to the very first time I opened my eyes...”418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoD1a0HKXf
“...” He threw me a look of disbelief, but after that initial scepticism, not once did418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yN2YOhMEJ
he dare to interrupt me again. Not until I was done with that longest of replies, and418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRssMu8VUtY
by then, we would already be making ourselves comfortable inside his most peculiar418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIndhwjXvy
household...418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfXPIDelYp
“...I slowly opened my eyes, like I had done so many times before, but still, they418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOEhP5wxFj
could not trespass that pitch-black. It seemed that yet again I was to be frustrated by418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0tEJLw29e
blindness, and darkness was to remain as my only company. How long had it been418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7DG6o5WJL
since I first regained consciousness? How much time had already been stolen from418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmn8iFDdwJI
me? To seemingly punish me even further; I was to endure it all while strapped to a418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHW0E5wbpoR
bed and surrounded by all sorts of sounds and smells that only increased my curiosity,418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3QW0h9zd2
only fuelled my already immeasurable desire to see - what a sentence. Another kind of418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQd1d8nSE2
darkness then swept over me as the shadows of frustration and anger began curving all418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPS05XeVvSE
around my mind, slowly turning into large black circles of depression.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7z8rVlizk
And then my body began telling what I could not: my fists clenched involuntarily418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSn5irLMMLG
as my tiny arms trembled, my entire strapped body began to twitch and turn418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIDBI7BaxY
whichever way, and shortly after my teeth too were showing eagerness in joining418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbiEgeoHNe
that demonstration. I wanted to shout, to scream, to expel all that I was feeling, but418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZSxU4zL2v
before my mouth could make its first echo, I began noticing that this time it would418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCROLWpf08L
be different. The darkness that had always been there in front of me, no matter how418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sR8sRdl3U
much my eyes would widen, began to dissipate and those feelings with it; slowly, they418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfxNLDZh8L0
all faded until other doings began to take over.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bwMuhCMx0
I began moving my head as much as those restraints would allow, and as soon as418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwbDmzF5BA
most of that blurriness left me, I found myself laying down in a poorly lit room.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWiMCGl5RVH
All sorts of machinery scattered about, there were also other beds like the one I was418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0FogIbbzyI
laying on, most of them empty but a few with others like me. I knew right away they418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcOJBoymjC
were like me.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8xY1TeMUR
