BLACK BIRDS IN MAHLA'S EYES
Magdalene Josiah (1)
Magdalena Josiah is a kind-hearted woman with icy blue eyes and silver-colored hair who smiles generously. He was born into a family of bangwsawan who owned a courtyard house of more than one hectare, which in the last days of the fall of his family, finally broken into several small parts that were then sold.
The house of Josiah's family was never large, only a two-story ranch house made of stone and wooden walls, which was always lively in the days of Magdalene's life. His family was a generous noble family, who would not hesitate to share with anyone who needed their help. No wonder, though,
the Magdalene family became one of the most respected families in the area, along with other noble families and village families who were no less wealthy.
Little Magdalene once asked her mother, who was a blind woman with one row of her front teeth dated entirely because she was bumped when no one helped her walk. At that time Magdalene was only two years old, and was an ordinary little girl who did not have any supernatural abilities. She is an ordinary girl who is cheerful, often wet the bed, and has a great curiosity. Truly an ordinary girl with extremely adorable pale blue eyes.
“Mother,” said that day, “Why can we be so rich?” Plain asking. He came to know the rich-poor concept of one of his caregivers who taught him how distinguished his family was, and how kindly his father and mother were willing to use their front yard as a makeshift kitchen that used to fill the stomachs of the displaced and poor.
His toothless and blind mother smiled at his words, Magdalene is the only child for the family of Josiah because her mother found herself in the age of twilight, so it is not possible for him to be able to get offspring again.
“Magda, that question is not usually asked by a child your age.” His mother replied, smiling. The woman showed me her bare teeth, and Magdalene thought how tormented it was to live without complete teeth. How does his mother chew on the food that is always delicious, and luxurious at their dining table?
Magdalene has had full teeth since she was 10 months old, and after that, she can eat alone and choose her favorite foods. He would not be able to live without the steak of the young cow that became the flagship dish at his family's dinner table. He recalled how his father shone proudly as he could slice the thick buttered meat on his own plate and then eat it voraciously.
How could his mother enjoy all that?
“Why is mom blind?” Magdalene asked immediately afterwards, without thinking. At that time his fat caretaker heard his question and immediately became very nervous and took Magdalene from his own mother's lap to scold her.
“Not polite, Miss, asking such a thing to the Big Lady. You can hurt her.” Hardik nanny with an anxious face after closing the door of her mother's room very slowly. Magdalene wondered why her mother let her go with her caretaker who smelled of campfuli. Isn't he his son? Didn't his mother want to spend as much time with Magdalene as she did with him?
Magdalene began to cry loudly because she felt that something was stinging her heart, very painful. He was too small to understand why his mother had always ignored his presence. “Sssh, Non, don't cry, how about I tell you something you've never heard before?” Whisper her nanny while swinging the tiny body of Magdalene in her arms. The only thing that caught his attention other than his mother's whereabouts were the spooky stories told so well by her nanny.
The middle-aged woman with a loose body and always a camperful flavor has told about the ghost of the stairs, where there is a visible figure that only in the form of a pair of legs that can mislead you when climbing the stairs, therefore Magdalene did not dare to wander alone around the stairs of their house. Then, the woman with the face of the mother ritu also once told about the ghost of the fireplace, which is a male ghost with a very high body soaring up to his head stumbled on the roof of their terraced house, their fireplace is on the ground floor.
“Good, sweet boy, now let's go to the room, then I'll tell you.” Whisper the nanny. Magdalene nodded slowly, descending from her nanny's arms, then walked cheerfully toward her room opposite her mother's.
His parents slept separately, his father preferring to spend his time in the back room, whatever the man was doing there, as far as Magdalene was concerned, he was forbidden to approach the room whose door was always locked, whether his father was inside or not.
The girl passed through the door of her mother's half-open room, and decided to peek for a while after seeing her nanny still busy ordering another maid to deliver milk to her room. Magdalene saw her blind mother kneeling with her knees against the wooden floor of her room.
The little girl saw a very bright light encircling her mother. The light was so hot and dazzling for his pair of eyes, he tried to cover his eyes with both hands, but it made him fall into his mother's room. The door leaf instantly swung shut and locked as soon as his body was thrown inside.
In a spacious room containing only one large bed of his mother, and a rocking chair, Magdalene Josiah, was, for the first time, he met a female demon who would threaten the life of his descendants for a very long time.
There, between the blinding luminescence and the fiery crackling that scorched part of her mother's face, Magdalene met the devil's eyes. His pair of eyes were empty, leaving only a gaping void. He seemed to be sucked into nothingness in that pair of eyes, where in parts of his body there were gaping wounds that opened up and closed like valves. Each time the tear opened, Magdalene could hear a deafening scream. The screams that made him want to give up and just die. Magdalene wanted to rest there, and to curl up with her mother.
“Just eat me, just eat me, not mom Magdalene watched in horror how the fire consumed her mother mercilessly. His mother's body was already engulfed in flames now, yet strangely there was no burning scorched smell, nor did his mother scream. Magda saw the woman he loved turned into a kind of monstrous empty shell with no eyes and no teeth.
In the first two years of her life, Magdalene witnessed the death of her mother
himself in a terrible state. He could not remember how long it had been screaming until someone finally entered by breaking the door, and immediately grabbed him into a warm, camphor-scented broom.
“Soide you!” Hardik's father was suddenly there. His voice sounds rough. The man immediately grabbed Magdalene from her nanny's arms and shook her body slowly. “Magda, did you hear dad?” Ask
raucous. He ignored the crowd of servants, cooks, until the gardener who was tiled in front of the door of his wife's room.
“Master, Mistress..” Excite the nanny Magdalena with a high shrill panic voice. The atmosphere became a terrible silence for a long time No more crackles of fire lit up in front of the body of his mother who was still struggling. Magdalene watched in horror as her mother's body slowly slumped toward her caretaker who was wide in fear.
“Bury him properly.” His father's orders were slow, along with that, the man carried Magdalene with one firm hand, and led her towards the back room that was forbidden to Magdalene all his life.