I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened127Please respect copyright.PENANADou7TdycXF
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.127Please respect copyright.PENANAF388LTgheb
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.127Please respect copyright.PENANAg2OEyOgZ9I
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just127Please respect copyright.PENANA8zQ9KZlLc3
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he127Please respect copyright.PENANATQ3oe2E6s5
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me127Please respect copyright.PENANApKtkcDt5cj
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me127Please respect copyright.PENANAwkUGBN4exq
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.127Please respect copyright.PENANAI9zZiZ9RYP
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was127Please respect copyright.PENANApURFgWjaEr
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken127Please respect copyright.PENANAcGmSv03F5z
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”127Please respect copyright.PENANAHWkO1QZnVQ
I insisted ...127Please respect copyright.PENANAqgxVjwm6Fx
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between127Please respect copyright.PENANApdnmSRkNA1
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much127Please respect copyright.PENANAR5Li2xIrvi
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”127Please respect copyright.PENANAaXu2PkBlEx
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those127Please respect copyright.PENANAp8IglMYFRF
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.127Please respect copyright.PENANA1poBw5BxgC
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the127Please respect copyright.PENANAG9Jchxo9Ae
meaning?”127Please respect copyright.PENANAYjolVJt92k
“Yes ...”127Please respect copyright.PENANA1g7eLZ31uB
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,127Please respect copyright.PENANA5Axr59QNqN
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure127Please respect copyright.PENANAdEJrOgLnCn
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to127Please respect copyright.PENANA6z2hoRbpBD
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”127Please respect copyright.PENANA0OubOOCrkF
“Charged?” I asked.127Please respect copyright.PENANAOi6HoIBSxJ
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of127Please respect copyright.PENANATzsUUjVGuN
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know127Please respect copyright.PENANABJGYdbVI5r
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”127Please respect copyright.PENANAY5S8VCflxS
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.127Please respect copyright.PENANAXPxjbNSMub
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just127Please respect copyright.PENANAzLy39IQHiT
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not127Please respect copyright.PENANAsNuSekfEAp
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient127Please respect copyright.PENANAA9CyTIZyex
and do what I ask of you.”127Please respect copyright.PENANABig5M4YQpC
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for127Please respect copyright.PENANAP9rde85bjM
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”127Please respect copyright.PENANA445DTwOedK
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely127Please respect copyright.PENANABfmrh4MN7m
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and127Please respect copyright.PENANAylObXTfgNl
unassertive manner.127Please respect copyright.PENANAD8Kq2cTHCb
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside127Please respect copyright.PENANAABFkh2b0mp
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted127Please respect copyright.PENANAV7OKRbF9kC
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in127Please respect copyright.PENANAzFuKtgnwSF
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found127Please respect copyright.PENANA5P9qkAid2l
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of127Please respect copyright.PENANAbouuQXLIK9
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping127Please respect copyright.PENANAwXBsyTR2j1
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.127Please respect copyright.PENANA3PLxhXasyp
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings127Please respect copyright.PENANAfVO9CUuAxV
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with127Please respect copyright.PENANAbXn7ZPQhZw
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few127Please respect copyright.PENANAbrR5UxXy1W
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.127Please respect copyright.PENANAQuctyaeqyd
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required127Please respect copyright.PENANA2HUqDHCAw7
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!127Please respect copyright.PENANAvW1Gr9EZFN
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,127Please respect copyright.PENANAkEB20XiVWk
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a127Please respect copyright.PENANAJMdvUhEWKb
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?127Please respect copyright.PENANAk7sbFUBa3b
It felt so...127Please respect copyright.PENANAFmkzN3bk0Y
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?127Please respect copyright.PENANA8mmSigODoU
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.