
I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened426Please respect copyright.PENANAVYx6r51A4o
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.426Please respect copyright.PENANAkO78mccUlf
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.426Please respect copyright.PENANAmdcs4Kuhqv
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just426Please respect copyright.PENANAKAPJiukSB3
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he426Please respect copyright.PENANAVP7N8NP0pG
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me426Please respect copyright.PENANAoBNAoU9WSH
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me426Please respect copyright.PENANAPa2KmoG1h1
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.426Please respect copyright.PENANA1u7qCDMa9X
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was426Please respect copyright.PENANA1ret3EfITv
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken426Please respect copyright.PENANAKwZpCLkyK9
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”426Please respect copyright.PENANAw5DfadSlny
I insisted ...426Please respect copyright.PENANAvl19Ro3u01
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between426Please respect copyright.PENANAGLU1n4ozhw
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much426Please respect copyright.PENANAYMvIBlEzoT
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAbEQcjLVX7o
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those426Please respect copyright.PENANAm2BmTmcMeK
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.426Please respect copyright.PENANARp0Q4MKdxW
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the426Please respect copyright.PENANAmZKsJH9nRf
meaning?”426Please respect copyright.PENANABbahzBXBuR
“Yes ...”426Please respect copyright.PENANAiDXOMDEah4
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,426Please respect copyright.PENANAwupVNcfcqm
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure426Please respect copyright.PENANAjh2HCjwjll
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to426Please respect copyright.PENANAhOQygajADF
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”426Please respect copyright.PENANABPUNSkFn3q
“Charged?” I asked.426Please respect copyright.PENANAec4WJIbqYv
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of426Please respect copyright.PENANAbPT4nnf4kZ
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know426Please respect copyright.PENANApZaGYA8Gup
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAOvlze6HMu3
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.426Please respect copyright.PENANA5TTRRF3MYE
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just426Please respect copyright.PENANAVh73O2QeVf
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not426Please respect copyright.PENANA8lZ274KthK
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient426Please respect copyright.PENANAfXnuK3ltUJ
and do what I ask of you.”426Please respect copyright.PENANA5sZtd353d0
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for426Please respect copyright.PENANA4D962tJoUn
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”426Please respect copyright.PENANATyEuKKWoAT
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely426Please respect copyright.PENANAfgzwCyJBe0
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and426Please respect copyright.PENANAVKBLw5B6QG
unassertive manner.426Please respect copyright.PENANA0IwpAPKxej
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside426Please respect copyright.PENANAm68ksdQ3aV
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted426Please respect copyright.PENANACjdfutMSFk
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in426Please respect copyright.PENANAotQjlKKLLd
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found426Please respect copyright.PENANALyPSQ214jW
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of426Please respect copyright.PENANA0qT3vwU43V
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping426Please respect copyright.PENANAWuWYeXMFCv
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.426Please respect copyright.PENANAe1HGgu7gJb
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings426Please respect copyright.PENANA9pWzWm9Lyz
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with426Please respect copyright.PENANACK9ui924I6
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few426Please respect copyright.PENANAL3TtIO9W16
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.426Please respect copyright.PENANAhDx32SU028
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required426Please respect copyright.PENANAU35ynjfPQ5
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!426Please respect copyright.PENANAHzpLLhwlfZ
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,426Please respect copyright.PENANAV4ezqudkHh
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a426Please respect copyright.PENANAtfA1yXNWq0
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?426Please respect copyright.PENANARn3UBPO0z3
It felt so...426Please respect copyright.PENANAY1SBURmfM9
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?426Please respect copyright.PENANAKvhD7heuZT
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.