
Asking me in all sorts of ways, but repeatedly nonetheless, who I was or what reason380Please respect copyright.PENANAEbFU9YHPD7
could I have to write such things. And after he untied the now even less threatening380Please respect copyright.PENANAm61kIPcZCp
beast of burden, he helped me find my place on top of its generous back.380Please respect copyright.PENANAvDvg6bbmqx
He then went around it, patting its massive head as he passed quite comfortably in380Please respect copyright.PENANAPZYwyIjuGq
front of it; and then he too took his place to my left.380Please respect copyright.PENANAziF20eAfEW
Now, with the both of us sitting side by side and ready to go, he smiled at me380Please respect copyright.PENANAvCtWtggOhh
through the corner of his mouth before shouting for our advance. But the one he380Please respect copyright.PENANACfi06Dk96T
called ´Gorliochi´ merely let out a howl of sorts... “Quit your blubbering.” He then380Please respect copyright.PENANAEUHsZwdtwN
began to pull those reins on the big beast’s neck repeatedly until finally, the beast380Please respect copyright.PENANAfzyBWXZhiI
began to move... “There we go. By the way, you pay no heed to these misbehaviours,380Please respect copyright.PENANAkrOscWU3Pm
alright? Ol’ Gorli here likes to act a bit lazy these days.”380Please respect copyright.PENANANC82KcdJwp
“I have never seen such a creature.”380Please respect copyright.PENANAfcjv8pCLVU
“Yeah,” He let out a sad and drawn-out confirmation, “There are not many like him380Please respect copyright.PENANAI7JD3ELT4N
around anymore. Frankly, I would be surprised if we ever encounter another one of his380Please respect copyright.PENANAaZ2i5mBtYo
kind.” He looked at me and then threw half a smile through the right corner of his380Please respect copyright.PENANAmoKxznUVf7
mouth; “Now, why don’t you start by telling me what made you write such a thing?380Please respect copyright.PENANA3uM78bGRHd
And more importantly: what is your real connection to that old fool? You know, he380Please respect copyright.PENANASgqCCj2Di4
and I; we have been friends for the longest time girl, and I even spoke to him just380Please respect copyright.PENANAmNTp2thkig
recently.” He threw a quick look my way, obviously trying to fish for any kind of380Please respect copyright.PENANAd5hYmBasKB
reaction; “And he has never mentioned a single word about any plans for an adoption.”380Please respect copyright.PENANAZ2FUQ3T0sr
“I am not that used to talking...” I warned, “what I mean is: I have not done it with380Please respect copyright.PENANAIv83wqjEdr
that many people yet so, I might - how you say - run off at the mouth.”380Please respect copyright.PENANA0pFSOqUj7b
“Oh? Well then,” he explained through another crooked smile; one that revealed380Please respect copyright.PENANA9c8Grh7GxO
how few teeth he still had left, and also how big his gums were, “You can be at ease380Please respect copyright.PENANAhTe1PWCPJC
since I am not that used to listening myself. “Besides,” he continued, “We still have380Please respect copyright.PENANAhkWWAIH2yo
ways to go, and nothing to do for the whole way but talk to each other. You just go380Please respect copyright.PENANA02aorD7KCi
on for as much as you like without a worry. I am sure no word will feel unwarranted.”380Please respect copyright.PENANAdWV890LeM7
“Alright,” I replied nervously, but also thankfully. “I guess it would be better if I just380Please respect copyright.PENANAUjy1pKnRyn
went back to the beginning; to the very first time I opened my eyes...”380Please respect copyright.PENANAWrbJGeDzRQ
“...” He threw me a look of disbelief, but after that initial scepticism, not once did380Please respect copyright.PENANAZ2DPmPV3aS
he dare to interrupt me again. Not until I was done with that longest of replies, and380Please respect copyright.PENANAcKOE6aSlUG
by then, we would already be making ourselves comfortable inside his most peculiar380Please respect copyright.PENANArk5CWBZ3Xg
household...380Please respect copyright.PENANAoTXUphD2uS
“...I slowly opened my eyes, like I had done so many times before, but still, they380Please respect copyright.PENANAdsxEEy6hKE
could not trespass that pitch-black. It seemed that yet again I was to be frustrated by380Please respect copyright.PENANAMDSwuDd7gB
blindness, and darkness was to remain as my only company. How long had it been380Please respect copyright.PENANABuBzI6esiY
since I first regained consciousness? How much time had already been stolen from380Please respect copyright.PENANAH6KdGVK1T8
me? To seemingly punish me even further; I was to endure it all while strapped to a380Please respect copyright.PENANAHudhOX6dSA
bed and surrounded by all sorts of sounds and smells that only increased my curiosity,380Please respect copyright.PENANAKEXvtC4M1s
only fuelled my already immeasurable desire to see - what a sentence. Another kind of380Please respect copyright.PENANAdILaYYxUxd
darkness then swept over me as the shadows of frustration and anger began curving all380Please respect copyright.PENANAFlhqQJAUec
around my mind, slowly turning into large black circles of depression.380Please respect copyright.PENANAuGjvIVSU9M
And then my body began telling what I could not: my fists clenched involuntarily380Please respect copyright.PENANAMA7qJqtcVZ
as my tiny arms trembled, my entire strapped body began to twitch and turn380Please respect copyright.PENANAJVguc78Hdl
whichever way, and shortly after my teeth too were showing eagerness in joining380Please respect copyright.PENANAzYiPxzSxp6
that demonstration. I wanted to shout, to scream, to expel all that I was feeling, but380Please respect copyright.PENANA8q4yN3ngWG
before my mouth could make its first echo, I began noticing that this time it would380Please respect copyright.PENANAQZKm51mmo5
be different. The darkness that had always been there in front of me, no matter how380Please respect copyright.PENANAQXX4pSU1v4
much my eyes would widen, began to dissipate and those feelings with it; slowly, they380Please respect copyright.PENANASOQmFwvVJg
all faded until other doings began to take over.380Please respect copyright.PENANAIi8aF6Jihl
I began moving my head as much as those restraints would allow, and as soon as380Please respect copyright.PENANAJertUyBu3m
most of that blurriness left me, I found myself laying down in a poorly lit room.380Please respect copyright.PENANAdMq0bCr4VW
All sorts of machinery scattered about, there were also other beds like the one I was380Please respect copyright.PENANAHVrXemnhVY
laying on, most of them empty but a few with others like me. I knew right away they380Please respect copyright.PENANA1UrQ8uvGv5
were like me.380Please respect copyright.PENANA9Hxewn045c