End Journeys
Telling's

"Yes, there they gathered from yesterday. I'll explain later" Ellen further accelerated her pace as she spoke.

Ruby and her other friends also accelerate their steps, hoping they can safely return to the motel.

"That's the way out, we're here!" kylie Exclamations.

A wooden ladder stood before them. The stairs were the only way out of the secret path they were on.

"Let's go up" said Kylie, who chose to go up first. Ruby, Ellen, and finally Felix followed while holding Andy.

Unlike before when Kylie entered the well behind Ann's house, the well that became Kylie's secret passageway could reach the house covered with weathered plywood,just like the well in the forest.

"Finally until yes," said Andy who looks a little tired.

"Now let's go to the motel," Ruby now walked first because she wanted to quickly get away from that place.

From a distance, Ruby's friends were waiting around the motel. Someone seemed to be running towards them.

"Are you guys okay?" ask her.

"As you can see. What about you guys?" Ruby asked Reno.

"Nothing bad happened. Actually, this is beyond my expectations" replied Reno.

"I want to introduce you to our new friend" Felix held Ellen's hand while holding Andy while Kylie stood behind Ruby.

"Auntie?!" Thomas, who had just got out of the car to check on the belongings, came to Ellen.

"You? Why here?" Ellen was also quite surprised to see Thomas' presence in that place.

"Yes, I'm stuck" replied Thomas.

"Well you've been in a lot of danger together huh," Ellen teases Ruby and Thomas. They briefly recalled the kidnapping incident that also involved Kylie.

"There will be an angry one" whispered Thomas, looking at Felix, who pretended not to notice them.

"Oh yeah, why is Kylie here?" reno asked after seeing Kylie who was his classmate was also there.

"Come on, let's get ready to go home" Ruby asked. He does not want the atmosphere to get more chaotic if friends ask Kylie for the events that happened to Ruby and Thomas some time ago.

"I almost forgot to tell you. I walked to where the tree had fallen, I just realized there was a tree house" Thomas said.

"Why did you just say? I also want to see," Reno replied as she wrapped her hand around Thomas' shoulder.

"Thomas, have you contacted your girlfriend?" ask Ruby.

"Hahaha no," he answered.

"Darling, you go to the car" Ruby asked.

The two of them got into the car with Ellen while the others remained silent outside. Bella and Cassie are still there, continuing to record the situation that still looks calm.

"Bi, please tell me everything you know," Ruby recorded their conversation.

"The woman who came to your house that night, remember? She was a follower of this sect" Ellen started telling stories while Felix and Ruby were just speechless.

"He is a follower of this sect as well as I am" he continued.

"What?!" Ruby was flabbergasted after hearing Ellen's words. What was on her mind now was Anne who was pretending to be good but it turned out that she also had evil intentions on Ruby and her friends.

"I used to be a follower of this sect but because I was forced to. Eventually I ran away and had a house near your house. I didn't expect they'd find me" Ellen kept telling me about her relationship with the sect.

When Ellen was 17, she lost both her parents. Experiencing a difficult life at a young age makes him almost desperate, but he meets a woman who is none other than Ann. Ann invites her to live together, she raises Ellen to be her sister. When Ann comes to Ellen, Ann also invites a child of Ellen's age and they live together. Ann and Anne lived with their mother, who is now dead. After the departure of his mother, it was Ann who continued the sect. A few weeks after Ellen and her age lived together, they were happy. But it did not last long because a week later Ellen and the child were transferred to a church in the interior.

"I remember my friend named Miranda. He changed his name and looked for me. He got a job to find me because he helped me escape first" Ellen said.

In the church, many children her age were also adopted as children and younger siblings by Ann's mother. There they were invited to pray at first but over time they were forced to worship Ann's mother. If anyone fights, he will be punished. The punishment that is given starts from locking someone in a narrow room with minimal light without giving him food for 3 days, hitting using rattan,soaking in the selana river for hours at midnight to eat stale food. Ellen herself did not want to worship Ann's mother, and she was often punished. The children there were given sedatives while rebelling. And there was a drug that Ellen did not know, some children who took the drug became very submissive to Ann's mother. There they were also given the doctrine that Ann's mother was the one sent by God to send her followers to heaven and eradicate all sinful activities. Everyone who does dirty things will be made into a ritual in their belief to clean up the world before the apocalypse arrives. Ann's mother brainwashes her followers and says the apocalypse is coming soon, and anyone who worships it will automatically go to heaven. And while waiting for that day to come, the sect will cleanse the world of all filthy deeds.

"About that was the teaching of this sect first. Now I don't know if it's the same" Ellen ended the story.

"Did aunt ever see the ritual performed by the sect?" ask Ruby.

"Actually when I run away, on the same day a ritual will be held. A couple I thought were 20 years old, they were arrested and taken to church. The police took them" replied Ellen.

"Police?" Felix doesn't believe me.

"really. There was also the interference of the ruler" Ellen assured.

Their allegations have been true, the police or officials have something to do with this sect.

"But the sect was disbanded" Ellen added.

"dissolved? Why?" Ruby's getting curious.

"The ritual was known to the general public who opposed the sect with the ritual of human sacrifice. Because of public outrage, the government intervened to disband the sect but I've guessed they didn't really disband it, just to appease the public" Ellen replied.

"We can use this to anger the public. I'll sacrifice myself" Ruby said.

"I won't let you do anything dangerous anymore" Felix disagreed.

"wait. Miranda?"