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Asking me in all sorts of ways, but repeatedly nonetheless, who I was or what reason426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZJQltAkPM
could I have to write such things. And after he untied the now even less threatening426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yrvtY5ubR
beast of burden, he helped me find my place on top of its generous back.426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo7eSmCwteP
He then went around it, patting its massive head as he passed quite comfortably in426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqk4aTn8tNS
front of it; and then he too took his place to my left.426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi37xhH0gGE
Now, with the both of us sitting side by side and ready to go, he smiled at me426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNOoOwDDhF8
through the corner of his mouth before shouting for our advance. But the one he426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYLpZyMxFA
called ´Gorliochi´ merely let out a howl of sorts... “Quit your blubbering.” He then426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TducamfgA
began to pull those reins on the big beast’s neck repeatedly until finally, the beast426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4GQvdh2wm
began to move... “There we go. By the way, you pay no heed to these misbehaviours,426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwhSpAMtPcZ
alright? Ol’ Gorli here likes to act a bit lazy these days.”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmV6XgP1Ow1
“I have never seen such a creature.”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkNYBIW514
“Yeah,” He let out a sad and drawn-out confirmation, “There are not many like him426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpJVmXeQYt
around anymore. Frankly, I would be surprised if we ever encounter another one of his426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYW8D2fT9b
kind.” He looked at me and then threw half a smile through the right corner of his426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡedGlwtKl8X
mouth; “Now, why don’t you start by telling me what made you write such a thing?426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZoUAX5Z67A
And more importantly: what is your real connection to that old fool? You know, he426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBvZuiu395
and I; we have been friends for the longest time girl, and I even spoke to him just426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJho3foLdL
recently.” He threw a quick look my way, obviously trying to fish for any kind of426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTgbxJ62byG
reaction; “And he has never mentioned a single word about any plans for an adoption.”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhRBCf1hM9
“I am not that used to talking...” I warned, “what I mean is: I have not done it with426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4fDePKMzG
that many people yet so, I might - how you say - run off at the mouth.”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqi9X2pq8yP
“Oh? Well then,” he explained through another crooked smile; one that revealed426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGrvosb4tef
how few teeth he still had left, and also how big his gums were, “You can be at ease426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM830jBNuOM
since I am not that used to listening myself. “Besides,” he continued, “We still have426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gLG8zd9rh
ways to go, and nothing to do for the whole way but talk to each other. You just go426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPRskPHfZw
on for as much as you like without a worry. I am sure no word will feel unwarranted.”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyy8G1vmQWW
“Alright,” I replied nervously, but also thankfully. “I guess it would be better if I just426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKX34WwkMmP
went back to the beginning; to the very first time I opened my eyes...”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgs2W00My3J
“...” He threw me a look of disbelief, but after that initial scepticism, not once did426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxvXAVCYyW
he dare to interrupt me again. Not until I was done with that longest of replies, and426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHOEUx5Eqh
by then, we would already be making ourselves comfortable inside his most peculiar426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwiD0vVLuLT
household...426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhGItDQ2K5
“...I slowly opened my eyes, like I had done so many times before, but still, they426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GTqoLMXLw
could not trespass that pitch-black. It seemed that yet again I was to be frustrated by426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBuKftMYK2v
blindness, and darkness was to remain as my only company. How long had it been426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgKn4Hxj1p
since I first regained consciousness? How much time had already been stolen from426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5JvI7N6nF
me? To seemingly punish me even further; I was to endure it all while strapped to a426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hJ0qrYjhe
bed and surrounded by all sorts of sounds and smells that only increased my curiosity,426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE68mHHeH4V
only fuelled my already immeasurable desire to see - what a sentence. Another kind of426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwMv3YAb1ue
darkness then swept over me as the shadows of frustration and anger began curving all426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc15XhzLwkC
around my mind, slowly turning into large black circles of depression.426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPtijVH0m6
And then my body began telling what I could not: my fists clenched involuntarily426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvZYcBCUYn
as my tiny arms trembled, my entire strapped body began to twitch and turn426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBI0GZ7ELse
whichever way, and shortly after my teeth too were showing eagerness in joining426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXCeRuXSCS
that demonstration. I wanted to shout, to scream, to expel all that I was feeling, but426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmz0Ujh4Ilo
before my mouth could make its first echo, I began noticing that this time it would426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWgMtTuNtp
be different. The darkness that had always been there in front of me, no matter how426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2jO8onFKK
much my eyes would widen, began to dissipate and those feelings with it; slowly, they426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1uLafBXLw
all faded until other doings began to take over.426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVmvq5wSnv
I began moving my head as much as those restraints would allow, and as soon as426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7NUodmAWN
most of that blurriness left me, I found myself laying down in a poorly lit room.426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgcM9fRo2O
All sorts of machinery scattered about, there were also other beds like the one I was426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzceZ25jNN
laying on, most of them empty but a few with others like me. I knew right away they426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryrHJEoFhP
were like me.426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtOxXdSNPE
