
I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened425Please respect copyright.PENANAPkl8xEpNbP
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.425Please respect copyright.PENANAFaWauh1KYp
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.425Please respect copyright.PENANABAKzwNOWMt
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just425Please respect copyright.PENANA5bQlq5BBIw
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he425Please respect copyright.PENANACJrIfejf4Z
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me425Please respect copyright.PENANAb7h7fHOCKL
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me425Please respect copyright.PENANAsLluOH3UYI
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.425Please respect copyright.PENANAI4qbt1poWe
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was425Please respect copyright.PENANAxQuCMmlL86
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken425Please respect copyright.PENANAMk0LPdbRuL
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”425Please respect copyright.PENANA2uYoMCjg0U
I insisted ...425Please respect copyright.PENANAulbcQNLWIa
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between425Please respect copyright.PENANAkuIEqMJBzO
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much425Please respect copyright.PENANAZG7a634LNn
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”425Please respect copyright.PENANA9dm1AXNSRf
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those425Please respect copyright.PENANAPfcZFzUjbN
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.425Please respect copyright.PENANAtDslWV2NqK
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the425Please respect copyright.PENANATBP6J693PO
meaning?”425Please respect copyright.PENANA2I543Rrll2
“Yes ...”425Please respect copyright.PENANAC0SASi5F3R
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,425Please respect copyright.PENANAD9FxITaK2x
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure425Please respect copyright.PENANAqmK1TDbEH4
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to425Please respect copyright.PENANAjsAxnQRDvj
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”425Please respect copyright.PENANASEb2PC1SSO
“Charged?” I asked.425Please respect copyright.PENANASS44kUgnTe
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of425Please respect copyright.PENANA26DZKf5iiF
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know425Please respect copyright.PENANA2id4rBDtuy
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”425Please respect copyright.PENANAdtm7o1dZrh
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.425Please respect copyright.PENANAvuMefbO1Na
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just425Please respect copyright.PENANAkfDL4Ry3Md
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not425Please respect copyright.PENANAUMhcIlrSea
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient425Please respect copyright.PENANAh5WXnICa1a
and do what I ask of you.”425Please respect copyright.PENANA5JfkUZsukq
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for425Please respect copyright.PENANAH8UiPpErJK
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”425Please respect copyright.PENANACsmjhnfX2P
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely425Please respect copyright.PENANAbaB8UM4Zie
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and425Please respect copyright.PENANAud42ywfc2Q
unassertive manner.425Please respect copyright.PENANAWSd3FH5rSE
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside425Please respect copyright.PENANAWu3dwLs5xh
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted425Please respect copyright.PENANAVDeh9XDOg8
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in425Please respect copyright.PENANA704gAWTEmY
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found425Please respect copyright.PENANAMAC6oilqSS
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of425Please respect copyright.PENANAVU6AlsllsE
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping425Please respect copyright.PENANAqw8Gb6Jn1o
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.425Please respect copyright.PENANASgiwIE74rV
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings425Please respect copyright.PENANAtCJSPl5ce2
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with425Please respect copyright.PENANAG4A2Y0rneS
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few425Please respect copyright.PENANAcBnWAGibKe
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.425Please respect copyright.PENANAIFSKtB0eAM
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required425Please respect copyright.PENANARpy72ujjG4
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!425Please respect copyright.PENANAl6xClnZjQ4
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,425Please respect copyright.PENANA2pArrCl2zT
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a425Please respect copyright.PENANAogLBAK47sd
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?425Please respect copyright.PENANAXVvIsqkCIT
It felt so...425Please respect copyright.PENANAWO8giDcvWB
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?425Please respect copyright.PENANASaWG3Seu3k
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.