Daendels Estella's
The Iron Hand
Always sunny mornings, smokeless factories and noisy vehicles on the streets. Only the sound of birds perched on tree branches could be heard in the ears when they opened their eyes in the morning. Stella pulled her box under the bed, the apple watch was still the same as when she came. If indeed this is a dream, but why does his body feel all pain, pain and dizziness in the head.
Stella's face was so pale, the girl pushed her box back under the bed. She stood in front of the mirror reflecting her reflection wearing a comfortable white nightwear, long dress, slightly blond wavy hair, her lips very pale. “Do I get sick? I was just dreaming why I got sick.” Stella held onto her forehead, but she felt a heat sink down on her body.
Stella opens her room door and tries to call Sumi to help her “Sumi! Sumi! Sumi!.” Stella's voice rang out to the kitchen, making Sumi run straight towards her master's room.
“There can be sa-.” Sumi stopped her words when she saw Stella's pale face, the girl touched Stella's forehead and retracted her hand as she felt the high heat from Stella's body. “The lady is sick, it is better the madam is in bed only, I will call the doctor.”
Stella just nodded and obeyed Sumi's words to sleep in her bed, just hugging the blanket and trying to hold on even though the pain invaded her entire body. Sumi comes back with a compress for Stella, the girl tries to take care of her employer while waiting for the doctor to arrive.
“Will master go home?.” Stella's weak voice rattled in asking for Daendels' presence, other than Daendels no one else understood Stella's position even though Daendels himself did not know that Stella was coming from the future.
“Soldiers will likely also tell this to Mr. Daendels when they bring a doctor here.”
“I'm fine, I'll recover after sleeping.”
“Mrs fever, doctor will come to check.”
Stella was silent, she chose to sleep, waking up would only cause her to feel pain even though sleep was still very difficult, but she tried.
Not knowing how long Stella slept, but she heard the sound of the footsteps of an army shoe, Stella tried to open her eyes as the burly hands of a man touched her forehead gently. Stella's eyes were completely open, although not so clear, but Stella saw Daendels in front of her, the man's face looked very worried.
“Does it feel so sick?.” The heavy sound that lingered in Stella's ears made the girl only nod her head when everything was hot, not only her body temperature but she also felt the heat in her eyes, if in the past his mother always gave heat-lowering drugs, because Stella is not the first time to feel a fever like this.
Sumi pulled a chair to sit Daendels, then went out, there was only Stella and Daendels. Before arriving home, the soldiers guarding his house came to deliver a message to the soldiers who were with him regarding the state of Stella that they always reported every day. Daendels postponed several meetings with important people just because he wanted to return home for a while because he got the news Stella was sick.
“Doctor will be here soon, so hang on for a while.” Daendels rubbed Stella's head gently.
Stella just nodded at Daendels' words in her ear, the girl pulled the blanket tighter from the cold. When the temperature is hot, but Stella is cold. After several hours had passed, the doctor arrived with two soldiers who called out to him. He was the most competent doctor to treat sick Dutch people, but it was not uncommon for local officials to use his services.
“Noni is just an ordinary fever, I will give the usual medicine to bring down the fever, it seems like he is too exhausted. If there is anything can directly contact me back.”
“Can mr.”
Sumi followed Daendels to her room in the back of the building. The house was surrounded by a fairly high wall. The front house is a house that is commonly used for meetings of the higher ups and the Dutch people, the, then the back side through the small fish pond will find the main house inhabited by Stella and also Daendels' own room, actually the room that Stella uses is a room that is intended for guests, but Stella was a guest also at the house so as long as Stella was there, the guest would stay at the front house. And lastly the back house that had to pass through the garden, it was a round-shaped building that was used for Daendels' workspace.
“Do you take good care of Stella? How's food? How's his sleep?.”
Sumi clasped both her hands nervously “Monya Stella eats well, she always finishes her food. But she always sleeps late at night for reading books and studying in her room, I only know once, but it seems like Madame Stella sleeps late at night every day.”
Daendels tapped his pen on the table while listening to Sumi's explanation, “He didn't come out at all?.”
“No sir, it should be today madam out, yesterday he already told me if you want to go out for a walk.”
“Alright, you can go back to work. Make sure Stella does not lack anything, make sure also when I am not at home, she sleeps regularly.”
“Good sir.”
The number of Dutch women on the island of Java is very small even can be calculated using fingers, usually the Dutch people establish relationships with indigenous women or local women so as to give birth to Indo-dutch descendants or mixed descendants of Indonesians and Dutch.
The figure of Estella Wijaya or all call it Stella/Estella is known by all Dutch people on the island of Java, not only because of Dutch women, but also because the woman was brought directly by Daendels, Daendels, the Governor General.
During Stella's illness, Daendels himself took care of her, so that when she wanted to take the spoon she had brought down, her gaze was fixed on a box under the bed. Daendels sees Stella still asleep in her sleep, Daendels takes out the box and opens it. The clothes worn by Stella when she was first found on her large ship, as well as an item never seen before.
Daendels takes the box out of Stella's room and puts it in hers, she does it because she thinks it's very important, she doesn't want anyone to see it. His room was one that no one would ever be able to enter, but the real reason was not that.
Ever since Stella's sudden presence on her ship sailing in the middle of the sea, Daendels has no idea that Stella is human. But it does not describe him as a ghost, his appearance is different, he learns about the figure of Stella. It might just be an assumption, but when he saw the strange item in the box Daendels really believed that the woman was not from his time, out of nowhere, he said, but Daendels didn't want the woman to leave.
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