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I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7cnTBcEavP
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuP0YFAjtLM
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxIGHuvvWD
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIofvKEoW3
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjqdKMPxr8
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMHmuzCsVl
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXmJyVSGTL
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxq0uCSiMor
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgamyXejh5
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3nSWyNuIN
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAUNl0tZhw
I insisted ...328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiAEy0BBn2
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0tiUZ2R522
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9FUONaeToF
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwt7Uf9ShK0
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZyCvZiFkQ
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgh3E5G8zE
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVceO7Ynbp4
meaning?”328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZjiZfx2uW
“Yes ...”328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ReUHVnp71
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTCyaBrw7w
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9VUcPvZrYP
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU12Khj3UUR
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0l3LEmn1XJ
“Charged?” I asked.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTRVCCSCCX
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFAGSR2jtu
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjVLSJK15w
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldIP9iTFCT
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2hMvyUTnh
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2K3CBa7J9b
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMFFEi9nO5
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzD6odKwed
and do what I ask of you.”328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFrbXc67Yh
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6vYgFFz2c
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6F7NtvM3lJ
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqiSP6o3UW
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsGlEdDn4o
unassertive manner.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYxrYhR8SF
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9J8eWGd2gM
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHtOmeFp67
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡysIsyei1iF
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJKy5E80Wv
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvz1VaK5C6
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzurEC9uf4C
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0A6DWe6hG
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtqNOIvhxa
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVRNnBAEfi
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJ31yIDnwR
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfOgdj4IXL
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmOfOWngBa
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVKUKKhibN
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF2bHEq6c1m
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77xmHrxTHV
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjOr1aK1tL
It felt so...328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHIDvD8lpV
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2713YQf1M
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.
