ADJOINING REALM
FIRST NIGHT IN THE WOODS

"Dar! Dar!" Anto yelled while shaking my shoulder. He managed to surprise me, until I turned to him.

"What's wrong with you, Dar? You were silent not blinking. There is also a lot of sweat!" connect Anto.

"Di-Dining Tok, To-please Dining, Tok!" Saying stammered. My face was drenched in sweat, with a body that was fully shaking violently.

"Dining why, Dar?!" Typal Satya slightly yelled.

Hearing Satya's question, I directly pointed my index finger towards Dining. Unfortunately only I could see Dining being smothered and licked with that long black foul-smelling tongue.

"What's that Dar?"

"Where's Dar?"

"There's nothing, Dar!"

"Yes .. nothing!" a series of questions from the two of them who were panicking at my condition.

'Did the two of them really not see it?' my question is in my heart.

Clearly in front of my eyes, Dining was still sitting, and little by little his skin peeled off, after being licked by the black creature.

When I focus on staring, my heart beats faster this time. The figure that had been smothering the dining, removed his hand from his dining face and crawled closer towards us.

The figure stared straight at my eyes with its fiery red eyes. The figure gradually approached while shaking his head, he crawled around the fire, and continued to approach towards me.

I said all the Surahs I memorized in my heart, with a great vibrating body that felt sculpted and could not stand even though I kept trying to move.

Now that the creature is very close, he has arrived right in front of me. I was still sculpting when the creature began to raise the long black arm towards me. Luckily, just as the fingernail on the black finger was about to reach my neck, a loud voice rang out again breaking the mess from within my mind.

"Let'soo!" Dining shouted very loudly. His voice pierced through and broke the silence of the forest in the blink of an eye.

My feelings gradually relieved, as Dining's screams managed to release my body from its fixated state. After hearing Dining shout, the black figure spontaneously jumped very quickly towards Dining. He again covered Dining's mouth with his black palm. And hurried away dragging Dining with just one arm of hers. They stepped into the darkness that had no light, and disappeared like they were devoured by the darkness.

"Dar! Whose screams just now, Dar!" satya asked with a trembling body while holding Anto who was also trembling.

"You heard that too?" I was surprised and answered only by nodding their heads.

"That's Dining ... Tok-Sat!" My answer was short, continuing to tell me what I just saw, in detail.

"What now, Dar? Are we just moving?" Satya asked with a very panicked face.

"No need, the creature is gone" I replied accordingly.

"When he comes back, what about Dar?"

anto timpal.

...***...

I think it's been quite a while since the black figure happened. Without a timer I can only guess how long it's been. Anto and Satya are fast asleep. They lean on the trunk of a large tree, with a sheath wrapped around their body tightly.

I'm still in charge of keeping the fire burning, as agreed by tonight we'll take turns keeping watch. Every now and then I reach for the dry wood in the pile, and throw it into the blaze to keep the fire burning.

After a long time. I turned my head towards Anto and Satya who were still sleeping leaning against the tree trunk. Actually I intend to wake up one of them. But fate does not seem to want to be friends tonight. My hair goes back to the creeps, when in their bed increased one person whom I did not recognize at all.

At first they were just two sleeping next to each other, but now it was clear three people were sleeping with shoulder support, 'Who is that?' Mumbles in the heart.

Their sleeping position is still the same, different Satya is now in the middle, there is an additional person who sleeps next to Satya. He curled up with a sheath that had exactly the same motive, with a sheath that belonged to Satya, his body completely wrapped tightly inside his sheath.

Out of curiosity, I ventured closer to the person, then opened the scabbard that covered his face. I continued to open it slowly, little by little his face began to appear. I occasionally gulped the saliva forcefully, imagining the face of a human or other creature covered in the scabbard.

Now almost half the sheaths I managed to lift. His chin began to be clearly visible between his long hair. Not wanting to linger, I pulled as fast as possible the sheath that still covered half of his face.

"Allahu Akbar!" My screams broke the silence that night. The guy curled up behind the sheath turned out to be not sleeping, he was deliberately waiting for me to open his sheath.

When the glove was perfectly open, the face of a woman was smiling broadly at me. So wide as his smile, the tip of his lips almost touched his ears. His eyes were so perfectly round, and also almost out of his face. She smiled, pointing out her black teeth from behind the sheath I just opened.

"Tokay! The sat! Wake up!" I shouted who was still in the upturned sitting position.

Hearing my shout Anto and Satya woke up in confusion. The woman who was still in the same position, she still tilted her head and leaned on Satya's shoulder. But not for a long time he held his head up and opened his wide lips. He stared silently at me, before finally flying gliding over the tree branch.

"Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi" the sound of his laughter so echoed, it sounded clear, but gradually became slow and away.

"What's up, Dar?" asked Anto while rubbing his eyes, with a dazed look because he was not fully aware.

I thought Anto would be terrified if I told her about the incident I just witnessed, so I'd rather shut up and try to ignore whatever I just saw, "Yes papa Tok, it's time to change guard, but you guys are in the wake of the hard rich talking the same stone, so I scream!"

"Oh, Dar! Panic people who have good dreams! Though I'm a dream song to eat sarimi!" (instant noodle brand) Ketus Satya then continued his sleep.

"I slept first, Tok. If you are not strong sleepy, wake up Satya," I said as I yawned.

"Okay Dar, you're asleep. Afraid tomorrow you're lemes on the way because of lack of sleep!" answer's short.

I immediately sat curled up inside the sheath to the right of Satya. I still see Anto guarding the fire in front of me. Just like me, he grabbed a supply of dry wood in a pile, then threw it into the fire, so that the fire grew bigger.

Tired after traveling, making my eyes more reluctant to open. Now drowsiness really can no longer be invited to compromise. The back of Anto that was seen in front of me started to look blurry. I immediately tilted my head to the left and leaned on Satya's sleeping shoulders. My consciousness gradually left the chaotic thoughts I had tonight.

In a deep drowsiness, I heard again the sound of something falling on my right shoulder. Lazily I forced open a few of these almost closed eyes. Unable to turn my head, I just glanced towards the source of the voice, and could be sure even though it was blurry. Looks head covered with a sarong with the same motif as the holster I wear, leaning over my right shoulder.

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