I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened101Please respect copyright.PENANA2i9rBVIaT3
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.101Please respect copyright.PENANAQs5fP1jHQx
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.101Please respect copyright.PENANArBlbjp2LIW
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just101Please respect copyright.PENANAGfslBpEkaH
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he101Please respect copyright.PENANATvLOjxwx2Z
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me101Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1YF92zUzR
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me101Please respect copyright.PENANAhirTQ87OwN
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.101Please respect copyright.PENANAm6jffVukjn
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was101Please respect copyright.PENANAuux8TGI8aT
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken101Please respect copyright.PENANAhI3oaNrgrB
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”101Please respect copyright.PENANAyI1dw7b2qr
I insisted ...101Please respect copyright.PENANAQiF7KH16v9
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between101Please respect copyright.PENANAcxi6Ry6n3e
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much101Please respect copyright.PENANAZlwSOqspPm
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”101Please respect copyright.PENANA4zV7ctUDXZ
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those101Please respect copyright.PENANAK5fgnreS0K
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.101Please respect copyright.PENANAzroxAhyouD
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the101Please respect copyright.PENANAj2rDBm8jjQ
meaning?”101Please respect copyright.PENANAtgLkBYrBT7
“Yes ...”101Please respect copyright.PENANACfaqRJpOhH
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,101Please respect copyright.PENANALa15k1GgHx
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure101Please respect copyright.PENANAGgQJoxFuRN
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to101Please respect copyright.PENANAgG7b8rKvMT
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”101Please respect copyright.PENANAeOQ9gOARO3
“Charged?” I asked.101Please respect copyright.PENANArHHMKJUxCy
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of101Please respect copyright.PENANALDmcCkcw6l
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know101Please respect copyright.PENANAZ1pmUbYG9l
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”101Please respect copyright.PENANALv2CGsAdBn
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.101Please respect copyright.PENANAuueOxwlPIx
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just101Please respect copyright.PENANALUZmeaFOm8
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not101Please respect copyright.PENANANAmKeN7uFj
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient101Please respect copyright.PENANALmEBZccBvd
and do what I ask of you.”101Please respect copyright.PENANASdhcfwmjB9
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for101Please respect copyright.PENANAYCqtn6yTV9
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”101Please respect copyright.PENANAgs27qCnxq1
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely101Please respect copyright.PENANATu9sZ9SABo
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and101Please respect copyright.PENANAnikQK791ju
unassertive manner.101Please respect copyright.PENANAKkkpBdp5K3
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside101Please respect copyright.PENANAF8lHMyoiRq
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted101Please respect copyright.PENANAa3TVrJefQe
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in101Please respect copyright.PENANAQtzBTAxULt
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found101Please respect copyright.PENANAzBxwkv3WJp
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of101Please respect copyright.PENANAhfuhCScSJ8
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping101Please respect copyright.PENANAKBnPxqPPx8
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.101Please respect copyright.PENANAuTiezEzf2a
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings101Please respect copyright.PENANA0WHFlUbmZM
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with101Please respect copyright.PENANABAzXGIKTSp
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few101Please respect copyright.PENANAmAmQ53y9WI
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.101Please respect copyright.PENANA3TRZMBJiu5
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required101Please respect copyright.PENANA8cQ3pJnRoB
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!101Please respect copyright.PENANALdfqfca7NK
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,101Please respect copyright.PENANA72DaUQxaoX
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a101Please respect copyright.PENANAT18Ej7tlXk
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?101Please respect copyright.PENANAQg2wVKrVDD
It felt so...101Please respect copyright.PENANA95dGEtVshR
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?101Please respect copyright.PENANApMiXtZWfhE
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.