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Asking me in all sorts of ways, but repeatedly nonetheless, who I was or what reason395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6oEHPE5Sy
could I have to write such things. And after he untied the now even less threatening395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpDNBEuSB5W
beast of burden, he helped me find my place on top of its generous back.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgQ7w4YaW4
He then went around it, patting its massive head as he passed quite comfortably in395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKqZ1ztNyW
front of it; and then he too took his place to my left.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloxn1E0SLE
Now, with the both of us sitting side by side and ready to go, he smiled at me395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlE56I9GWSp
through the corner of his mouth before shouting for our advance. But the one he395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrBELSHQF9v
called ´Gorliochi´ merely let out a howl of sorts... “Quit your blubbering.” He then395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡThR79nIcbj
began to pull those reins on the big beast’s neck repeatedly until finally, the beast395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsvRnFhwAP
began to move... “There we go. By the way, you pay no heed to these misbehaviours,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkMniAFUP7
alright? Ol’ Gorli here likes to act a bit lazy these days.”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUIciPQkYKP
“I have never seen such a creature.”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOY2KedUKb
“Yeah,” He let out a sad and drawn-out confirmation, “There are not many like him395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3QISXz5So
around anymore. Frankly, I would be surprised if we ever encounter another one of his395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJYL1ij9Dj
kind.” He looked at me and then threw half a smile through the right corner of his395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRqLfnRS2U
mouth; “Now, why don’t you start by telling me what made you write such a thing?395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2YVT7OZihG
And more importantly: what is your real connection to that old fool? You know, he395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXO58kt1fq
and I; we have been friends for the longest time girl, and I even spoke to him just395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwvORpIgrK
recently.” He threw a quick look my way, obviously trying to fish for any kind of395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8d7E8y41p
reaction; “And he has never mentioned a single word about any plans for an adoption.”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8eylCAtNQx
“I am not that used to talking...” I warned, “what I mean is: I have not done it with395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rFReRvbAV
that many people yet so, I might - how you say - run off at the mouth.”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBwrFnJjP1
“Oh? Well then,” he explained through another crooked smile; one that revealed395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxW91fN46aS
how few teeth he still had left, and also how big his gums were, “You can be at ease395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwnC3lHpcxL
since I am not that used to listening myself. “Besides,” he continued, “We still have395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMaul3d7H2F
ways to go, and nothing to do for the whole way but talk to each other. You just go395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkU36pdTVrv
on for as much as you like without a worry. I am sure no word will feel unwarranted.”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5WPaG9zQU
“Alright,” I replied nervously, but also thankfully. “I guess it would be better if I just395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFwLlUJT1T
went back to the beginning; to the very first time I opened my eyes...”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFt5heQ0uTv
“...” He threw me a look of disbelief, but after that initial scepticism, not once did395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsTckbPSWZ
he dare to interrupt me again. Not until I was done with that longest of replies, and395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPf4dPJ8Ybk
by then, we would already be making ourselves comfortable inside his most peculiar395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJITcCMDcT
household...395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNq7LVgvq0
“...I slowly opened my eyes, like I had done so many times before, but still, they395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3rCRYaCBR
could not trespass that pitch-black. It seemed that yet again I was to be frustrated by395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCU7JnP83s
blindness, and darkness was to remain as my only company. How long had it been395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2wAlgCTE5
since I first regained consciousness? How much time had already been stolen from395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhahemhSnY
me? To seemingly punish me even further; I was to endure it all while strapped to a395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhxG4JanEYE
bed and surrounded by all sorts of sounds and smells that only increased my curiosity,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDajIsJXWD
only fuelled my already immeasurable desire to see - what a sentence. Another kind of395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIV4j8HqbX
darkness then swept over me as the shadows of frustration and anger began curving all395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikxTTLsdsT
around my mind, slowly turning into large black circles of depression.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04dDcOm58j
And then my body began telling what I could not: my fists clenched involuntarily395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBH0pEqvZ0G
as my tiny arms trembled, my entire strapped body began to twitch and turn395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmN1P8A1KVY
whichever way, and shortly after my teeth too were showing eagerness in joining395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMWF9xgiZP
that demonstration. I wanted to shout, to scream, to expel all that I was feeling, but395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrDQ9lqglh
before my mouth could make its first echo, I began noticing that this time it would395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3L69EwMZM
be different. The darkness that had always been there in front of me, no matter how395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuog7BTlGh8
much my eyes would widen, began to dissipate and those feelings with it; slowly, they395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq93Ubosyow
all faded until other doings began to take over.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzjeze8ze2
I began moving my head as much as those restraints would allow, and as soon as395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DHfrSnIL6
most of that blurriness left me, I found myself laying down in a poorly lit room.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHtsrX4b4P
All sorts of machinery scattered about, there were also other beds like the one I was395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6PuP07uxd
laying on, most of them empty but a few with others like me. I knew right away they395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDAR7JFflwX
were like me.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU1w9EIgtmL
