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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.
