
I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened439Please respect copyright.PENANArqufrywZvp
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.439Please respect copyright.PENANAxgqdG8EUKM
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.439Please respect copyright.PENANALKiomqqPxS
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just439Please respect copyright.PENANAKlkeBNvLxp
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he439Please respect copyright.PENANANYB0Ye9Wlj
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me439Please respect copyright.PENANAZLgGk3aq1s
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me439Please respect copyright.PENANAsbBGYYdyfU
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.439Please respect copyright.PENANAshfM9inYEO
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was439Please respect copyright.PENANApjRzW60ylC
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken439Please respect copyright.PENANAaHlY9l0JdW
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”439Please respect copyright.PENANARm7qVdxmMQ
I insisted ...439Please respect copyright.PENANA3gMc8AUKKZ
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between439Please respect copyright.PENANAMS2uyBso8I
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much439Please respect copyright.PENANAMVe4FPDvq8
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”439Please respect copyright.PENANATDrtZ2QHmS
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those439Please respect copyright.PENANASILIDrN9Lu
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.439Please respect copyright.PENANA3EIm3nPYiW
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the439Please respect copyright.PENANAeIEuA1q7DR
meaning?”439Please respect copyright.PENANA4SmuPSood1
“Yes ...”439Please respect copyright.PENANAdQKjyGOu9b
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,439Please respect copyright.PENANAAKNlMdyqsE
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure439Please respect copyright.PENANApZP8AIc4qj
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to439Please respect copyright.PENANAgu5bzy9YuQ
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”439Please respect copyright.PENANAVvUCnyqxSE
“Charged?” I asked.439Please respect copyright.PENANAjAPUh1RqTl
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of439Please respect copyright.PENANAoWSipZT2fx
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know439Please respect copyright.PENANAP8H60oZrW7
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”439Please respect copyright.PENANATDzoeGegXG
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.439Please respect copyright.PENANAgapM8z955h
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just439Please respect copyright.PENANApiqFqYze0y
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not439Please respect copyright.PENANAJhy3FzkQ2y
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient439Please respect copyright.PENANAP0zYcRrcLA
and do what I ask of you.”439Please respect copyright.PENANALpLmL9WQCF
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for439Please respect copyright.PENANAjr9UEFvPUR
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”439Please respect copyright.PENANAyGdAAgDvFM
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely439Please respect copyright.PENANAsQzQ18JaNv
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and439Please respect copyright.PENANAXNCT2nH1fn
unassertive manner.439Please respect copyright.PENANAwE7Wn9CR35
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside439Please respect copyright.PENANAVat0jz11Ec
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted439Please respect copyright.PENANAy9HqGRMy6u
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in439Please respect copyright.PENANAVIeHV53qv7
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found439Please respect copyright.PENANAPNjo4pACgw
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of439Please respect copyright.PENANAgRBsR1oJdX
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping439Please respect copyright.PENANAwHsVtJmOcl
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.439Please respect copyright.PENANAXrwIAcYWs6
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings439Please respect copyright.PENANAGuWSL8aQPE
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with439Please respect copyright.PENANA3muQhlq3NM
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few439Please respect copyright.PENANAMNFIMK9XXY
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.439Please respect copyright.PENANACYVE6qGrWe
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required439Please respect copyright.PENANAekkMMhf7bc
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!439Please respect copyright.PENANA1rddz4kfEo
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,439Please respect copyright.PENANA3X9Nhhe3Qk
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a439Please respect copyright.PENANAn4ngrBPZGO
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?439Please respect copyright.PENANAvihd2HFAQ7
It felt so...439Please respect copyright.PENANAGWLI7hUCY4
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?439Please respect copyright.PENANAN2jEi41Gp7
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.