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Asking me in all sorts of ways, but repeatedly nonetheless, who I was or what reason276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuDJ0LojAl
could I have to write such things. And after he untied the now even less threatening276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWvcSrjOcp
beast of burden, he helped me find my place on top of its generous back.276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5fCjE1qMM
He then went around it, patting its massive head as he passed quite comfortably in276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHACgDS2CY
front of it; and then he too took his place to my left.276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghPGfHpoVx
Now, with the both of us sitting side by side and ready to go, he smiled at me276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBZwEmDu9h
through the corner of his mouth before shouting for our advance. But the one he276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKn2EudCQY
called ´Gorliochi´ merely let out a howl of sorts... “Quit your blubbering.” He then276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFoWT4VuyVT
began to pull those reins on the big beast’s neck repeatedly until finally, the beast276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbadEOsmyhp
began to move... “There we go. By the way, you pay no heed to these misbehaviours,276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Fuxicio7N
alright? Ol’ Gorli here likes to act a bit lazy these days.”276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmgxuqhbnp
“I have never seen such a creature.”276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIATB0iosdx
“Yeah,” He let out a sad and drawn-out confirmation, “There are not many like him276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIxU2VPqMV
around anymore. Frankly, I would be surprised if we ever encounter another one of his276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rRdKm4qF4
kind.” He looked at me and then threw half a smile through the right corner of his276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNB4HAQtH3C
mouth; “Now, why don’t you start by telling me what made you write such a thing?276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCReOvA0GoG
And more importantly: what is your real connection to that old fool? You know, he276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwaCtgVPsQM
and I; we have been friends for the longest time girl, and I even spoke to him just276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZbVdSwluq
recently.” He threw a quick look my way, obviously trying to fish for any kind of276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3GK3dwpwF
reaction; “And he has never mentioned a single word about any plans for an adoption.”276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7JhQS9kTU
“I am not that used to talking...” I warned, “what I mean is: I have not done it with276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3EaGBV4stT
that many people yet so, I might - how you say - run off at the mouth.”276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxlqQlRQcCf
“Oh? Well then,” he explained through another crooked smile; one that revealed276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7wrrOiT4L
how few teeth he still had left, and also how big his gums were, “You can be at ease276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSgtabStRG
since I am not that used to listening myself. “Besides,” he continued, “We still have276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0HCmyZRS14
ways to go, and nothing to do for the whole way but talk to each other. You just go276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYzCoLltcl
on for as much as you like without a worry. I am sure no word will feel unwarranted.”276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFKwRu5byx
“Alright,” I replied nervously, but also thankfully. “I guess it would be better if I just276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lVk9tcdO8
went back to the beginning; to the very first time I opened my eyes...”276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡieilrG3cSo
“...” He threw me a look of disbelief, but after that initial scepticism, not once did276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHnEFq5W1U
he dare to interrupt me again. Not until I was done with that longest of replies, and276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOrOJo4etg
by then, we would already be making ourselves comfortable inside his most peculiar276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2Es7t03ND
household...276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFcUWvv04W
“...I slowly opened my eyes, like I had done so many times before, but still, they276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKmVqSr0ON7
could not trespass that pitch-black. It seemed that yet again I was to be frustrated by276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJXVRlFBgW
blindness, and darkness was to remain as my only company. How long had it been276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7hWcWHtkn
since I first regained consciousness? How much time had already been stolen from276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfsLWmtqOS
me? To seemingly punish me even further; I was to endure it all while strapped to a276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjBHisqi0Y
bed and surrounded by all sorts of sounds and smells that only increased my curiosity,276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnd9E0slGYf
only fuelled my already immeasurable desire to see - what a sentence. Another kind of276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNThQxTTTn
darkness then swept over me as the shadows of frustration and anger began curving all276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHhGNFdiKi
around my mind, slowly turning into large black circles of depression.276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpDZ8rZqEB
And then my body began telling what I could not: my fists clenched involuntarily276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5miQAoGzx
as my tiny arms trembled, my entire strapped body began to twitch and turn276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkDSmipoqu
whichever way, and shortly after my teeth too were showing eagerness in joining276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4NZYnKiHW
that demonstration. I wanted to shout, to scream, to expel all that I was feeling, but276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZutv5ZhkB
before my mouth could make its first echo, I began noticing that this time it would276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGLcABmzYxz
be different. The darkness that had always been there in front of me, no matter how276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKm4Vim9Xn4
much my eyes would widen, began to dissipate and those feelings with it; slowly, they276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1l1TiQ81k0
all faded until other doings began to take over.276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡohlDmgNTqK
I began moving my head as much as those restraints would allow, and as soon as276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFoY5xVBmGH
most of that blurriness left me, I found myself laying down in a poorly lit room.276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJBd24W0FQ
All sorts of machinery scattered about, there were also other beds like the one I was276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaYSpUVRzjC
laying on, most of them empty but a few with others like me. I knew right away they276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CDXt9nuSI
were like me.276Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoXzpkVQgq
