
Asking me in all sorts of ways, but repeatedly nonetheless, who I was or what reason417Please respect copyright.PENANA3XRvCZoUjv
could I have to write such things. And after he untied the now even less threatening417Please respect copyright.PENANAuQIKRaXx73
beast of burden, he helped me find my place on top of its generous back.417Please respect copyright.PENANAZzbfaQFTc6
He then went around it, patting its massive head as he passed quite comfortably in417Please respect copyright.PENANAsak9GXTEM6
front of it; and then he too took his place to my left.417Please respect copyright.PENANADcyL5KB9RW
Now, with the both of us sitting side by side and ready to go, he smiled at me417Please respect copyright.PENANA0dnznjafAY
through the corner of his mouth before shouting for our advance. But the one he417Please respect copyright.PENANAAv9KwakEoy
called ´Gorliochi´ merely let out a howl of sorts... “Quit your blubbering.” He then417Please respect copyright.PENANAsgIzXncqe2
began to pull those reins on the big beast’s neck repeatedly until finally, the beast417Please respect copyright.PENANAvJFZML93O7
began to move... “There we go. By the way, you pay no heed to these misbehaviours,417Please respect copyright.PENANADwWW3e6T7v
alright? Ol’ Gorli here likes to act a bit lazy these days.”417Please respect copyright.PENANAbYWZWkQgIX
“I have never seen such a creature.”417Please respect copyright.PENANABl2jJFRspo
“Yeah,” He let out a sad and drawn-out confirmation, “There are not many like him417Please respect copyright.PENANA7EQBy9K6Fl
around anymore. Frankly, I would be surprised if we ever encounter another one of his417Please respect copyright.PENANA4XJqjvfJRs
kind.” He looked at me and then threw half a smile through the right corner of his417Please respect copyright.PENANA6ajh36JAg3
mouth; “Now, why don’t you start by telling me what made you write such a thing?417Please respect copyright.PENANAk0rNV8y1Nf
And more importantly: what is your real connection to that old fool? You know, he417Please respect copyright.PENANAYj8o4JUxOi
and I; we have been friends for the longest time girl, and I even spoke to him just417Please respect copyright.PENANAMfDTu3kBGX
recently.” He threw a quick look my way, obviously trying to fish for any kind of417Please respect copyright.PENANA42nqVGOHNa
reaction; “And he has never mentioned a single word about any plans for an adoption.”417Please respect copyright.PENANA9gY6GzZSx3
“I am not that used to talking...” I warned, “what I mean is: I have not done it with417Please respect copyright.PENANAhiaG4brsTd
that many people yet so, I might - how you say - run off at the mouth.”417Please respect copyright.PENANAGu7IWJTnqN
“Oh? Well then,” he explained through another crooked smile; one that revealed417Please respect copyright.PENANAZdtRDYza7w
how few teeth he still had left, and also how big his gums were, “You can be at ease417Please respect copyright.PENANAXEfgAPq57e
since I am not that used to listening myself. “Besides,” he continued, “We still have417Please respect copyright.PENANAAGChhKQxOk
ways to go, and nothing to do for the whole way but talk to each other. You just go417Please respect copyright.PENANAuzJdV43snW
on for as much as you like without a worry. I am sure no word will feel unwarranted.”417Please respect copyright.PENANAgtIlYXoxx4
“Alright,” I replied nervously, but also thankfully. “I guess it would be better if I just417Please respect copyright.PENANAPkgJldFHnR
went back to the beginning; to the very first time I opened my eyes...”417Please respect copyright.PENANAWFIIIAfv3p
“...” He threw me a look of disbelief, but after that initial scepticism, not once did417Please respect copyright.PENANAuxS2GxRTYG
he dare to interrupt me again. Not until I was done with that longest of replies, and417Please respect copyright.PENANAWr4UjWtj6U
by then, we would already be making ourselves comfortable inside his most peculiar417Please respect copyright.PENANAL9hvYJzLQH
household...417Please respect copyright.PENANARTmFZ9DjfX
“...I slowly opened my eyes, like I had done so many times before, but still, they417Please respect copyright.PENANAqdK9HFTtCp
could not trespass that pitch-black. It seemed that yet again I was to be frustrated by417Please respect copyright.PENANArcmJI1uvHo
blindness, and darkness was to remain as my only company. How long had it been417Please respect copyright.PENANAmYbi5rBCSU
since I first regained consciousness? How much time had already been stolen from417Please respect copyright.PENANA03kXBVQ1Ar
me? To seemingly punish me even further; I was to endure it all while strapped to a417Please respect copyright.PENANAAzZPjCKJZ7
bed and surrounded by all sorts of sounds and smells that only increased my curiosity,417Please respect copyright.PENANAn5hKE9podU
only fuelled my already immeasurable desire to see - what a sentence. Another kind of417Please respect copyright.PENANAlVBnM7nylz
darkness then swept over me as the shadows of frustration and anger began curving all417Please respect copyright.PENANAXL866ZouiV
around my mind, slowly turning into large black circles of depression.417Please respect copyright.PENANA3ccfvpIeDl
And then my body began telling what I could not: my fists clenched involuntarily417Please respect copyright.PENANARkFG59YO7x
as my tiny arms trembled, my entire strapped body began to twitch and turn417Please respect copyright.PENANAymfewbGeLl
whichever way, and shortly after my teeth too were showing eagerness in joining417Please respect copyright.PENANAn2FMgDrTRE
that demonstration. I wanted to shout, to scream, to expel all that I was feeling, but417Please respect copyright.PENANABFNYUG811R
before my mouth could make its first echo, I began noticing that this time it would417Please respect copyright.PENANA2xkTgZnIB2
be different. The darkness that had always been there in front of me, no matter how417Please respect copyright.PENANAmi0JSv5bax
much my eyes would widen, began to dissipate and those feelings with it; slowly, they417Please respect copyright.PENANA0mqg95pvnF
all faded until other doings began to take over.417Please respect copyright.PENANANOcsyoEeNy
I began moving my head as much as those restraints would allow, and as soon as417Please respect copyright.PENANAvAGrdtscf3
most of that blurriness left me, I found myself laying down in a poorly lit room.417Please respect copyright.PENANA0wsPwcmdjz
All sorts of machinery scattered about, there were also other beds like the one I was417Please respect copyright.PENANA71C5Xrckza
laying on, most of them empty but a few with others like me. I knew right away they417Please respect copyright.PENANAulgSqgWgrV
were like me.417Please respect copyright.PENANAqG3LZ97uo8