Last God
Diu Is the Exception

Little Diu stared at an old man coming into the cave. Diu knows that guy, he's a Kurdish.

"Smart you, good afternoon. Where's your grandpa?"

"There, inside, may be sleep, just wake up" Diu replied.

Diu knows, if the Kurdish battery comes, there must be a pair of Dwarves/Hobbits like himself brought home by humans who come tomorrow. For information, the last generation of dwarves lived in the forests, in the hills, in caves close to human settlements. Because the dwarves of the last generation have no body, so they connect life only by eating the essence of food that has not been eaten by humans (that's why, sometimes we eat food that tastes tasteless. They are usually delicious with the same ingredients. If so, it means that we eat food from dwarves/Hobbits or other demit nature creatures) or the essence of fruits in the forest.

Ever since Grandfather Empoh came to the Kurdish battery, the dwarves (today we call tuyul) got a 'job' and in return for proper food, drink and shelter.

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"I called him again. When we get off this angkot, the guy is ready by the road to pick us up," said Yanto while closing the phone.

A bright morning, as bright as Rustam's hope. After getting off the bus, Rustam and Yanto continued to ride in angkot.

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Sure enough, the next day the Kurdish battery came with two humans. The two men were Rustam and Yanto.

The innocent and eavesdropping little Diu just fell silent watching a pair of adult tuyul in the dribble out of the cave by his mothers and brothers.

For a moment the atmosphere became haru. Like the usual farewell ceremony. A goodbye hug and a prayer and or a mantra of salvation are recited.

Diu small so imagine life in the city with humans. Humans have a nice house, a nice vehicle, nice clothes and of course good food. Diu knew that, little Diu had often been invited by his adult brothers when stealing food in the human kitchen. Diu has not been allowed to steal. So little Diu was just waiting outside or looking out of the window of that human life. Diu felt that something was wrong with the habits of his people. Diu knew that, because he liked to sit in the elementary school window and hear the activities in that elementary school. Sometimes, too, without a doubt Diu sat among the humans and watched television.

The sassy and thirsty little Diu explanation once discussed that with the grandfather of Empoh.

"We live in different realms, we do not harm them, their food is whole, the essence of our part, the form of their part" Grandpa Empoh said the other day.

Still little Diu felt something was wrong.

Diu is an exception, as Grandfather Empoh said. Little Diu asked so many questions and was smart. Especially after his parents disappeared, Grandpa Empoh loved poor little Diu very much.

"Hey, Diu! Let's eat!" said little Vinvin from under the window of the second grade SD where Diu was most haunted from earlier.

"I'm not hungry yet" Diu replied without looking. Diu had memorized the shrill sound without the bass it must be Vinvin's voice. Vinvin is agile and always follows where he goes. Although sometimes uncomfortable, but Diu grateful to have a friend Vinvin. His lonely heart was healed.

Since the departure of his parents, only Empoh and Vinvin's grandfather was able to joke with Diu who was a loner.

"Yes, but this food is delicious. You can smell it, right?" Vinvin. But Diu still did not budge. His gaze was empty, his heart was prone.

The many human children who could not see him really made Diu envious. Diu wanted to sit on that bench and learn to write and read.