
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