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I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifabAbZmAD
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MMy3af7a1
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzr20X6Pj59
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJEiOZJJk7
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYIq2DgaqPE
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9EyOSelmX
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJxtC0UoND
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIf3GaEYQM
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pADMoMB85
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8emCsYAJ4o
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCwxk0M7mY
I insisted ...376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpxUZNKxEW
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FbzXghUUZ
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sET7jmMDK
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTSW3hcsKT
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImOdBiKUJs
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0XryzjwmN
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZD0JF1FJT4
meaning?”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwxFFhCoqdF
“Yes ...”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTma846BNE
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFIISVrljt
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDV809go8Z
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lMWjK5i7m
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlc2Wc6FUQI
“Charged?” I asked.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbM1gY6LICD
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJMfqGt5H5
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdyrzmgT1Y0
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNkYoRyX5W
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBOGlykfgs
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMAhooPikjf
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGlIBu8hFK
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0uiOgtIgB
and do what I ask of you.”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZn7Sp9UpWZ
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6UFLTQ4Nq
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsTbL8tDVk
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtlJebZkAK
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznChToNGQM
unassertive manner.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ItZq2E98H
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAzPg7y24OY
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjm19pbg0kH
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmdL4QZOD8b
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvH6LqbDN6
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrrIkzYxPY
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiPJA8A6w2r
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGU8Gqh0Hd
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNkRbKQfVU
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCIdQflbuw
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq139UaRFbJ
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrLZIg6Lo0
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9jXb9lceZ
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnlA9oiZu1
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIwzAgACsI
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQ6q0DpEcr
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGJ0mPrNjz
It felt so...376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeR9cYseAUj
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8Et2WlVle
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.
