I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened128Please respect copyright.PENANAkiWYcXjlfM
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.128Please respect copyright.PENANAeWy97qlyaI
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.128Please respect copyright.PENANAgLhwLSD7hf
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just128Please respect copyright.PENANAsyPEQwGOKQ
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he128Please respect copyright.PENANAkLvOiTqW6d
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me128Please respect copyright.PENANALDhf3TGXEj
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me128Please respect copyright.PENANA9sQLXXITjF
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.128Please respect copyright.PENANAd8lIQVnqsv
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was128Please respect copyright.PENANAlyg530TNMY
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken128Please respect copyright.PENANArYqhTUqmlH
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”128Please respect copyright.PENANAX1EJwcImaq
I insisted ...128Please respect copyright.PENANAcqWVhxmRy5
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between128Please respect copyright.PENANAdH1pWXnHjm
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much128Please respect copyright.PENANAXe7pJ3pHQ3
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”128Please respect copyright.PENANAaFGepeZOFm
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those128Please respect copyright.PENANAIlGiq3c6ZM
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.128Please respect copyright.PENANAROYGXULTrV
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the128Please respect copyright.PENANAA65LyTyS3J
meaning?”128Please respect copyright.PENANA6IR4xyIAB6
“Yes ...”128Please respect copyright.PENANAMdAuGWsb7J
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,128Please respect copyright.PENANA1R5NoPmfgZ
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure128Please respect copyright.PENANAbDqZOFIeef
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to128Please respect copyright.PENANAVOX5klB76e
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”128Please respect copyright.PENANAZbhkADqoNI
“Charged?” I asked.128Please respect copyright.PENANAodWlJJsoRZ
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of128Please respect copyright.PENANAoXy2FQcxyv
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know128Please respect copyright.PENANA929pbbuDIq
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”128Please respect copyright.PENANAAbpwMjIsXg
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.128Please respect copyright.PENANATm4p3gJxiv
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just128Please respect copyright.PENANAkhrCZLF01t
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not128Please respect copyright.PENANAZd0FXtNYri
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient128Please respect copyright.PENANAywbK0EhBoY
and do what I ask of you.”128Please respect copyright.PENANAciKPDhNAkU
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for128Please respect copyright.PENANAV5pOrIan5R
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”128Please respect copyright.PENANAVfajEswjtZ
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely128Please respect copyright.PENANAB0odSrraEp
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and128Please respect copyright.PENANAzLym1dGFDS
unassertive manner.128Please respect copyright.PENANAHENfsAvSrm
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside128Please respect copyright.PENANAKTGCWuNJjo
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted128Please respect copyright.PENANABylSXPFdiS
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in128Please respect copyright.PENANAGYUYk5a46x
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found128Please respect copyright.PENANAu6zZspbCOH
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of128Please respect copyright.PENANAI1nHthC3qa
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping128Please respect copyright.PENANAml8zvMtdWn
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.128Please respect copyright.PENANAIQIlxGrffv
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings128Please respect copyright.PENANARZwf9esqbk
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with128Please respect copyright.PENANAjCBvHsi5Ij
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few128Please respect copyright.PENANAp9OP6Yr1az
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.128Please respect copyright.PENANA4OxHj5bfxP
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required128Please respect copyright.PENANALyZvq1Dhsg
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!128Please respect copyright.PENANAKqWqkKVHeo
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,128Please respect copyright.PENANAxIqxMoXEWJ
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a128Please respect copyright.PENANAZ2TokifDcj
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?128Please respect copyright.PENANAtBNboCxDz1
It felt so...128Please respect copyright.PENANARtvJn5N7E2
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?128Please respect copyright.PENANAbjnrugYQiw
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.