ADJOINING REALM
DINING DIRECTIONS

It was morning, the longest night of my life was over. After finishing packing the goods and also filling the stomach, we hurried away to continue the journey back.

Four more hours had passed, the scorching sun that was burning the skin had started to not appear anymore. Me and my two friends have entered such a dense forest this time. Just like the forest I've seen in my dreams.

The dense foliage was able to close the blistering, leafy stretches over the ranks of mossy trees, with enormous trunks lined up along the eye of the beholder.

The strange forest, in this vast forest as well as with hundreds of lush trees standing, there was absolutely no sound of animals along the way. It was really worth it when Si Mbah called it by the nickname Dead Forest.

'Plant this bundle under the dead forest banyan tree, after that read the seat verse three times, do not try to open Dar, if you want to survive,' remembering the words of Si Mbah when first giving a bag made of black cloth the size of an adult fist.

What exactly is it? I really managed to get curious about him. Maybe the old me will be reckless, open this parcel, because he has never experienced anything strange in life. But I will not do that now, having seen everything I have seen.

"Dar .. Is there still water?" satya asked briefly, her words managed to break my daydream.

"This is it, out of it, Sat. There will be a river in front of it" I replied as I thrust a pot of drinking water made from bamboo sticks into Satya's hands.

"How do you know there's a river ahead, Dar?" Timpal Anto confusion.

"I've been here, Tok, we're close to the banyan tree. Let's hurry there, we will take a shower and worshipers dzuhur all there," I asked as I accelerated my footsteps.

"Alhamdulillaah .. "my words because I saw the big banyan tree that was the initial purpose of the journey already stood firmly in front there.

"Come-Dar, we're running. I want to drink again, the water from you was not enough" said Satya continued running, followed by Anto behind him

When I was about to catch up with them, it appeared that Dining was approaching from a distance, with a single leap, the figure of a pocong with its shattered face was already standing right in front of my eyes. He kept moving his head forward, until the two of us met.

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'Ahhh, I know this place!' I murmured inwardly as I was again placed inside a dark place that could not even see my own hands.

'Huh ... what is this?' this time my hand felt holding something, even though I couldn't see it, I could guess if it was someone's hand.

Suddenly the cold hand I was holding pulled firmly on me, making me feel like I was flying, until it reached in front of the light the size of a cave mouth that I had ever entered. Not long after, the hand dragged my body back into the light.

"ah! it's you, Ning?! What do you want to show me?" I asked Dining who had dragged my arm.

Dining pointed his index finger at his mother. I saw his mother carrying a piece of paper. He read the writing on it with sparkling eyes, the smile on his lips was as good as reading a letter from someone he had been waiting for a long time. After Dining's mother finished reading, she placed the piece of paper in front of her chest with both palms resting cross-legged. Then with a clear smile, he looked up, his gaze glaring upwards and saying, "I'll be there, Mas!"

Dining's hand pulls my arm back, we go into the light that's next to his mother. In an instant I moved and saw Dining and his mother resting under a tree.

But ... Who is that guy? My heart asked again as a middle-aged man across the river waved at Dining and his mother.

'Lho?! They cuddle?' I muttered when I saw Stepmother Dining embrace the man. He did just that right in front of both eyes. Seeing that, Dining's face also instantly changed, the expression on his face was as surprised as the expression of mine.

While the direction towards the city is opposite to the direction of this place?

Still in the midst of confusion, I saw the middle-aged man step towards Dining who was still sitting next to him. He held onto Dining's chin, as he continued to watch Dining's face closely.

"What's not dear, Deck? still a virgin .. beautiful again," asked the man to Mother Dining.

"Oh that's it, my mom! So you want to turn to my son now?!" stepmother's ketus made the man laugh. The man walked back towards Dining's mother who was putting on a furious face.

"Where may be dear .. I came all the way here for us" she replied seducingly, with her hand holding Mother Dining's chin. With just that word, he managed to make Dining's mother's cheeks flushed in embarrassment.

I see Dining still sitting still. It even looked like a puddle of water in both of his eyes. How not? Her biological father had just died, and her stepmother had already made out with another man before her eyes. Dining has been 14 years, and has also grown to be married. Naturally, if he also already knew, about a feeling commonly called disappointed.

Dining got up from his seat, he cried and was about to run, but his act was successfully held by his mother by holding his arm.

"Where are you going?!" Sergey's stepmother Dining and only got an answer a sobbing from Dining.

"Wait here! Don't go anywhere!" Ketus.

After that, the middle-aged man whispered something in Dining's mother's ear, then went away. I followed his steps, and not far from the banyan tree looked as if the man was reaching for a white cloth that had been neatly folded. He also grabbed a piece of wood the size of an arm, which he had already prepared behind a bush.

With a sagging step, the man walked over without a sound. Turning around the banyan tree to turn your back on Dining. Not long after, there was a powerful impact sound, as the wooden chunk that the man swung landed right at the nape of Dining's neck. Instantly Dining instantly lay limp, he drooped helplessly in front of his stepmother as well as the man.

"Why so loud! He might die!" ketus Stepmom panicked

"It's still got his breath, Dek. Don't worry!"

the man replied as he placed two fingers in front of Dining's nostril, ensuring Dining's survival.

I could only be stunned to see that happen. Until suddenly it was like there was a rope pulling my body. I was dragged adrift towards the cave that I had entered at the direction of the voice of Sewah first.

"Dar! Dar!" Shouted two men.

Hearing that voice, my eyes opened. Although blurry I could see Anto and Satya in front of me. Right now they are yelling and shaking my shoulder and slapping my cheek.

When I realized, I heard them tell stories. He said after Satya and Anto ran, they waited for me on the edge of time, but I did not come. After a long time they waited, they finally decided to go back, and they found me lying on the ground.

Did I really faint?

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