Love In War
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Although faint but my pupils can see a thin smile carved from his lips. Not poking my question, the man barged past me just like that.

"When do you want to stay there?"

"Huh." I was the one who woke up from the daydream. Hurry up, approaching the man.

"Gaat u zitten." The man who was holding the machete spoke again.

I'm not scratching my chin. I don't understand what this guy in front of me is saying.

"Sit down!" the man who was sitting cross-legged.

"Huh. Ah, yes."

I looked at the meat in front of me. There's a sense of drooling to enjoy it. But doubt. Is this halal meat?

"Why don't you eat? Be eating. These are all my hunts, " said the man who looked younger than me while commenting on a smile.

I look at the awkward smile. "I'm still full."

Aishs. I wanted to feel like I was cursing when these stomach worms could not be compromised to make the young man laugh out loud.

"Did that sound indicate that you were full?" teasing the man beside me.

I snorted with a bent face.

"Eat! Our journey is still long" he added.

"But may I know what this meat is?"

The young man smiled. "It's the forest chicken."

His words slid from my lips.

"Did you really eat this cacophony?" sniff the guy next to me. Saw me finish two pieces of chicken.

"Aren't you the one who told me to eat?"

"I told you to eat. Not telling you to spend it all."

"Plant."

"What?"

"I'm in a period of growth, sir. It takes a lot of nutrition."

"Enoughs! I can still hunt in the woods again, Major." Lerai the young man in front of me.

I lift two thumbs up. Smilingly. "You are reliable. Different from the man beside me," my cynic. Glancing at it with the tip of an eye. "Hm, what's your name?"

"Sander, Madam, "reply with a gentle tone.

"Don't call me Madam. I'm not that old. Just call Ar, I mean Laila."

"Ja, Laila."

I don't think time is rolling so fast. The night has come. The stars seem to be scattered up there. Flickering, shining jumantara. Accompanied by the breeze that blows slowly, entering through the pores of the skin.

I spent the night talking to Sander about things.

"So you are the eldest of three children?" I asked, as he told me about his family.

He's nodding. "Yes, I'm the backbone of the family. My father passed away three years ago, and my brothers are young. My mother is also now often sickly. Right now I just want to focus on my mother's health and education for my sisters. What about you, Laila?" Find me.

I take a long breath." I'm an only child" I replied briefly.

Being in this middle of nowhere doesn't mean I have to tell you my origins, right?

"really?"

Why do his eyes look so bright?

I nod my head." Hm…"

"Are you guys just going to keep chatting until morning?" tukas man who I do not know his name is—contact makes me turn sharply towards him.

"Don't take heart, huh, Laila? Major Aldert is like that. But actually his heart is very good, "sander explained, when after the man went back into the hut.

"Aldert?"

"The name of the man. Yeah, already. We're in."

looking around, looking for the whereabouts of two men who were already not in their respective places.

I pulled a jacket that covered my body. Wait for. A jacket? Since when is this jacket on me? Whose jacket?

Slowly. I put my feet out of the hut when I heard something.

"Are you awake?" ask Sander. Looking at me while sharpening his knife on a medium-sized rock.

"Hm, where's Aldert?"

"Major, it's probably hunting in the woods."

Shortly after, Aldert came with a qotho bird and a banana comb in his hand.

"MasyaAllah, beautiful, "my words stroked the head of the bird. “Hai qotho bird motorcade, will anyone lend me their wings so that I can fly to meet my loved ones. "

"What?"

I'm looking. Looking at Aldert's blue eyes.

"It is a syair of love excerpt from the book of nahwu phenomenal Alfiyah Ibn Malik by Sheikh Abdullah Muhammad bin Jamaludin bin Malik Al Andalusi through the sharah of Ibn Aqil. Have you never heard of it?"

"Is that important?"

I grunt. "Are you sure you're gonna keep this bird?"

Aldert grinning. "I'm sure I'll slaughter him this second as well."

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Basic human is not acting. How could he eat the flesh of such an innocent animal so voraciously?

After having a heated argument with her, I finally lost.

"If you want to go hungry, please starve yourself" he said.

With a sense of unwavering, I let the cute and cute creature be slaughtered.

"Are you sure you don't want to eat? Our journey will be very far later, "Sander explained.

"I would rather starve to death than eat the flesh of an innocent creature" I said, waving out the hut with a banana comb. Sitting on the ground. Staring at the red light of the swastamita that will soon disappear below the western horizon line.

The Holy One of God created all its beauty.

"Do you like to watch the sun go down?" Sander sat beside me.

Nodding head. "Yes. Someone says if we are longing for someone else, then, look at the sun that will sink in the western horizon, send your longing message to him through the twilight, he will feel the same as you."

"Do you miss someone?"

"I miss both my parents." Clear water slid from the eye fertilizers without me preventing it.

"You're Laila's strong woman. I'm sure it is."

"No one will be strong when his strength is not with him and my strength is that of my parents. I want to meet and regroup with them, Sander."

"Maaa asaaba mim musii inward fil ardi wa laa fiii anfusikum illaa fii kitaabim min qabli an nabra ahaa; innaa zaalika 'alal laahi yasir. "

"Any calamity that befalls the earth and befalls thyself is written in the Book (Lawah Mahfuz) before We make it happen. Truly, that is easy for God."

(QS. Al-Hadid 57: Verse 22)

I was stunned, looking at him. "You know that verse?"

"Although I am not a Muslim, I have often heard the verse read. Is not every event the will of God? That sunset twilight was also on his will, wasn't it?"

Nodding head.

"If you believe in God's decree and destiny, you should not give up, Laila."

I wiped the tears from the crackers, reviewing the sweet smile. "Thank you, Sander. It turns out that besides being handsome you can also calm the hearts of others."

"I've been pretty since I was an embryo." He smiled proudly.

I'm rolling the eyeballs, lazy."Piquancy."

"thank you. Although I don't know what it means, but I think it's a compliment to me."

Sander stand. "Come on. We need to get ready. We'll have to leave this place soon." He extended his hand to me.