MYFATHER
Episode 30's

Yudi's feathers spontaneously stood up as soon as the baby's cry was heard for the second time. Although the second cry is lighter than the first but still this is indeed the actual sound of the baby. This voice clearly could not be ignored because it had been heard twice so real, moreover there was still trauma inherent when remembering his dream about the ball of light that issued a baby's cry just now. His curiosity that was triggered kept him completely awake.

He remembered the mysterious space at the bottom of this house when he heard that roar last night. Moreover, the cry feels like coming from the room below, whether this is just his feeling or indeed many strange sounds haunting this house...after the roar now the cry of the baby. This made Yudi want to investigate further...

After making sure Mirna was in a slumber the young man got up from the sofa, put on his sandals, picked up the oil lamp near the nightstand, then walked out down the stairs. That's when the baby's cry was heard again, a soft cry that made his tribe sliced, as if there was the resignation of the helpless little creature in the face of death that was approaching. Yudi did not know if the cry was related to his dream just now, maybe his ears caught the sound and then drove it to his subconscious until the terrible dream was formed.

He once read about it, how the human brain is able to capture sound even though the owner is asleep and send it to the brain. The sensory-filled brain nerves then move imaginative abilities in the form of images so that the sleeping person is able to recognize his surroundings. That kind of ability is also possessed by people who walk in sleep so that they do not hit or fall from the stairs while walking in their sleep.

The darkness downstairs is as dark as it is upstairs. It may even be worse because the lack of ventilation in the room makes light from outside difficult to penetrate in. The man directed his oil lamp and only found the furniture frozen in place. Not a few minutes there was a knock of footsteps from the stairs above.

As fast as lightning Yudi ducked down the stairs and crouched down while covering the oil lamp with his body so that the light he carried was not washed out. And he moved in on time as the sound of the move became clearer. The closer the knock was followed by the light reflected stronger to the floor, making Yudi could see the figure was none other than the Rose Mother.

The woman reached the bottom floor, to a place just a few meters away from her hiding place, as she passed the stairs Yudi could see the back of the woman wrapped in a bright color kimono. Mother Rose stepped towards the wine cellar, perhaps wanting to take one-two slices of wine as a bedmate.or, if there is a baby there, who is it?

Yudi inched out of hiding and followed the woman a few minutes later, the woman was not too far away because Yudi could still see the light from the petromax lamp she was carrying. The two entered the wine cellar in time. Here Yudi must be more careful so that he does not nudge bottles of wine on the shelf or placed carelessly on the floor.

The wine cellar was stuffy as usual. Yudi held his breath to prevent the intoxicating smell from stinging his kiss. Ceiling lights that became the mainstay to illuminate the room has been replaced by four torches on each side of the rectangular building. The light from the torch was a relief because he did not need to be squeaked following the light of the Rose Mother petromax. The woman stops in front of the basement door, but Yudi misses something when the person she loves disappears behind the door.

Well.nah.real that door can be opened. You lied to me, huh, beautiful mother?

Yudi approached the door and watched it closely. He frowned in surprise because there were no knobs or door levers there. His fingers touched the surface of the door, looking for something that could be used to open. Luckily the ancient technology is not as sophisticated as it is now, so this door should not be equipped with advanced security such as voice passwords or sight coding.

The door was made of seven transverse pieces of wood that were nailed parallel. Although his work impressed the origin, the wood material of good quality made him able to survive the period where the door was made until now. There's nothing odd like bumps, hollows, or maybe hidden objects that could be door-opening knobs. That door is just an ordinary door.

Yudi put an ear to the door. It is not the sound of the baby or the roar or any other odd sound heard from within, but the twisting footsteps that are certainly too rough for subtle, or stealth, creatures, or whatever the Mother of the Roses accused was behind it. Perhaps it was the footsteps of Mother Rose herself, and it seemed that she was busy inside there...

”You are indeed stupid..” the sound of the Rose Mother reprimanding. His speech was followed by several faint clinks resembling the sound of a spoon hitting the lips of a glass.

”Entai until when this works. You should get Senajze it.”

”Drink this..”

People who are spoken to by the Mother of Roses are more silent, the second conversation for a few minutes afterwards was poorly understood because more murmurs were heard there but he realized that the woman was about to leave the room. The young man rushed away, passed two-three steps with long steps, then hid behind a large pile of barrel to the right of the room. The door rang and Yudi immediately cursed in his heart, just as he could not open the door because the door was open not by being pushed but shifted.

”You wait here, I want to go to the room to pick up some stuff,” Mother Rose said to the person inside. ”Don't forget, clean up that trash until I get back.”

The woman's pouting lips showed that she was unhappy, the beautiful impression of the moment was far from her. He looks..messy..tired.and sleep-deprived. Occasionally he coughed and curled softly, ”Basic... troublesome!” then leave by leaving the door of the basement wide open.

It's a good chance! Mother Rose's room on the third floor, it took her about fifteen minutes to get back here. So Yudi had a moment to peek at who the person the woman was talking to was inside. As soon as the woman vanished from sight Yudi stood up and went inside after making sure the room was empty first. There was a kind of ledge just behind the door that jutted down and was very dark. Impossible to go down without lighting,

Yudi was grateful that he had prepared with an oil lamp in hand so that he could see the situation before him. The ledge was connected to the precipitous steps he had to tread carefully so as not to slip, his breath increasingly hunting as he got closer to the end of the eighteen steps, the ladder of eighteen steps, and why especially if not for the anxiety of what he will find in the basement...

Who is the person down here? Why is he in here?

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