Daendels Estella's
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One of the higher-ups raised her hand slightly to speak, Stella giving her a chance to talk early. “I support you.” It brought everyone there to agree with the position of Stella who will be part of the construction of De Grote Postweg, just saying a little what he knew already made everyone believe in an 18-year-old girl.

Several times Stella smiled to herself, it turned out that life here was more fun than she thought. Along the way home, the girl simply commented on the smile making Daendels who was sitting next to her feel uneasy because the girl also made her happy indirectly.

But that face changed as the lovers walked the streets they passed, Stella completely changed the look on her face and looked back, a Dutch man along with a native woman, I don't know what their relationship is with Stella, but Daendels stopped his train.

“What's Stella?.”

“They are like mom and daddy.” Stella pointed to the couple who were joking around in the back of the train they were riding.

But seeing a couple who seemed to be just the same age as them, made Daendels wrinkle his forehead. He was confused, of course he was confused when Stella said the young couple was mom and daddy if in English were both his parents or father and mother.

“In your world?.”

Stella nodded, her face gloomy, as if she also realized that they were just a couple that happened to resemble the Larasati incident. But the more moody it was when Daendels didn't notice it firsthand, the girl cried.

“What hurts? Are you sick?.” Daendels touched Stella's back which was shaking from crying.

“Hiks I miss home, I miss both my parents.”  The crying is more bitter, Stella is a girl in general who if here they still live with both parents if not married.

Daendels cannot calm down by promising to bring Stella together with her parents, even Daendels himself does not know where Stella really is, and where she lives. The man pulled Stella into his arms, very gently stroking the girl's back which shook and continued to cry.

“I don't know what I should do, but as long as you are here, I will try to make you comfortable and not short of stuff though.” Daendels said softly, but Stella could hear clearly.

Stella returned to her original position and tried to wipe her cheek-drenched tears, but Daendels gave her handkerchief. “Thanks.” Stella rubbed her cheeks using the handkerchief Daendels gave her.

The journey back to Buitenzorg takes a very long time, only in one work to Batavia takes two days to commute. Stella looked at the surrounding environment, after they stopped a place to eat, it turns out that in this age there is also a place to eat or a place to stop people on the way, usually, who came to the place to eat the Dutch people saw a lot of soldiers wearing Dutch clothes along with their superiors.

Daendels as Governor-General was disinclined by everyone let alone Dutch officials, maybe Daendels did not know them, but they came very kindly to greet him. Sometimes their eyes are on Stella because they are curious about the beautiful woman at her side.

“Estella, the woman I love.” This time was different from before, not introducing as a future wife but the woman she loved, Stella turned her head towards the extremely cold-faced man, who was not a woman, without any other expression even though the sentence he spoke was very sweet.

Stella then introduced herself directly, news of the Daendels woman who was a company princess was heard throughout the Dutch East Indies, no one does not know about Stella even though she is one of the women who make the kings of each region curious because of her position which is not only as a woman Daendels, she said, but also an assistant and advisor in his work.

Stella's ingenuity in analyzing the contours of the soil of each region and also generous, making her the most popular Dutch woman there. It was actually very bad for Stella, her name has never existed in history even about Daendels there has never been a woman who became a Daendels couple in the history she read.

“Can I sit?.” Male voice made Stella turn her head and shift her position slightly for Daendels to sit down “What do you think? It's been almost half an hour you're here without doing anything.”

Stella doesn't even realize that she spends all that time sitting around daydreaming. “Nothing, about how to Larasati?.”

“I came to tell you about Larasati, she's the son of a pottery maker, a clay craft. It seems like the pottery master is not suitable for his family anymore, because the last news I got, they have a lot of debt and their work is threatened can not be resumed because of the many debts that accumulate.” Daendels explains everything he knows to Stella.

“Larasati is getting married to a wheat master in her area to repay all her debts.”

Stella was a little surprised by the last sentence Daendels said, the girl turned her head and listened back clearly, that it was in fact Larasati was going to marry a man much older than her to pay off the family debt.

“Can you help him?.” Stella's question made Daendels breathe out his heavy breath.

“If I help him, I can but they will never be able to take responsibility for what they do. Larasati's decision to marry means she is unable to pay the obligation she was supposed to pay. This time I can't help you.”

What Daendels said was true, Stella only smiled wryly, she only remembered Kinanti, not that she considered Larasati as Kinanti because of her same face.

“I have to go back to the room.” Stella moved away from her seat, not angry, but she just did not want to think about this world with her world and considered it the same.

Daendels held Stella's hand that was about to go, just one step but Stella stopped her step and turned her head back.

“You're angry because I didn't help him?.”

“No, I just feel too much because I think what I met here is the same as my life. Sorry.”

“Stella... I know how you feel, but I've told you that you only have me here, you can depend on me.”

“What if I fall in love with you? History will change only because of me, an 18-year-old boy who suddenly woke up here.”

Daendels was silent, he did not understand what Stella was saying, but it felt like the girl was on the verge of feeling so indecisive that she did not understand what to do anymore.

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