
”WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”
What does Mirna mean?
The thumping motion above indicates that the girl is not alone there. There was someone else with him and the girl was fighting with him. Maybe the monster will hurt him. The girl's voice sounded frightened.
”I datasang..” scream Yudi.
Infuriated and furious, Yudi hurriedly grabbed the edge of the bedsheet as the place to shore up the strength. His knees pushed and he managed to crawl up onto the bed. He was stunned to see the monster kneeling down on Mirna with a position behind him. The bastard bent between Mirna's legs as if waiting for something. Yudi was unable to see the monster clearly but vaguely looked like a cat. Large cats that resemble human structures...
The thing in between**** Mirna was slightly pushed out, its shape was like a melon covered in skin and reddish thick flesh. The top looks weakly moved, indicating that there is life radiating there. The monster's hands drifted between Mirna's legs, forming claws resembling eagle claws that were catching salmon from the river, gripping the twitching object and pulling it out forcefully like a raiser pulling a cabbage plant from the ground.
The howling of pain not only came from Mirna but also the newly revoked thing coming out of her body, which turned out to be the half-finished body of the baby still wrapped in amniotic fluid. Half the size of a normal baby, some parts of his body may not be mature yet but have shown complete human limbs. A deep blue circle surrounds the baby's eyelids that are still tightly closed. The baby may not have been able to open the sense of sight but was able to feel the danger threatening only a few centimeters from it. And that danger cannot be avoided...
The incising creature stuck out its tongue, licking the blood that stuck to the baby's body. Unsatisfied, his tongue wrapped around the body of the baby and squeezed it so much like a python squeezing prey and breaking every bone and joint that was there. The baby's scream stopped with a strange shrill. The monster's tongue wrapped around the baby's neck and could not break it anyway.
”Civilized!” Yudi.
”Yudi..please me..”.
The voice came from the girl in the bed who was being overpowered by the monster. Yudi is shocked to discover that the girl is not Mirna but Siska. The girl lay on her back in a helpless position, fear, panic, and pain controlled her expression. The glare of her longing eyes made Yudi remember the look in the eyes that made her fall in love with the girl, something that had been missing for a long time.
When the mouth of the monster opened about to swallow the baby, Yudi lunged and shouted, ”Let go of him !”
Both rolled to the floor, the sheets were drawn to drown them in the struggle under the darkness. Yudi thrashed, trying to rotate the body to be above the monster. The bang echoed, making Yudi wake up completely, the dissipation of the blanket covering.
It turned out that Yudi was sitting on the floor, under the bed, but the monster was nowhere, and when he looked at the bed Mirna was still there. They fell into a deep sleep by holding a bottle of wine that they had emptied together a few hours earlier. The young man realized he was so drunk that he fell out of bed after having a nightmare. Fortunately, his behavior did not disturb Mirna, visible from his breathing that moves regularly in a deep.
View through the window. Lightning snatched for the umpteenth time and Yudi understood where the bang had come from. The rain hit the earth at a speed that would put shame on the entire hoses of car sprayers in the world. The branches of trees were smashed by the bad luck of the storm. The atmosphere must be really unpleasant out there.
The young man groaned, leaving a blanket piled on the bed before going to the bathroom. Wash your face with warm water before going back to sleep. The water tap rattled as it rotated clockwise, as if protesting against being used in the middle of the night blind. Warm water poured slowly from the mouth of the tap, Yudi cupped a pair of palms to hold the water he was about to wash into the face. As soon as the water swept his facial skin the tension was suddenly subsided.
He thought everything was fine until the body looked into the mirror. How surprised when the one in the mirror was the face of someone else. The face of an old man, skinny, bagged with thick eyes, and tyrannical resembled a mouse. That's not his face. It's the face of another. Not a familiar face to him.Yudi does not remember where he met the man.
The figure waved at him while his mouth shouted something as if giving a warning or something resembling that. The figure disappeared quickly as Yudi winked, the face of the old man changed his tired, pale, and thin face...
He went back to the bed to lie beside Mirna, hugged her from behind, and she hugged her arms around her waist. Yudi tried to go back to sleep but somehow he was unable to remove the old man's shadow from his mind at all.
The thunderous lightning in the next second raised the old man's face back outside the room. Yudi's sleeping position facing the window made her able to see the face peeking into the room. It was then remembered that his room was on the second floor and the outside facing the window had no balcony or anything like that, so how could the old man be there. Curiously Yudi woke up to take a clearer look and the figure gestured by raising his head for the young man to follow him before being lost in the evening.
For a moment it was considered to invite Mirna, but to see how well the girl slept finally Yudi did not reach the heart, so she then woke up from the bed, wearing adequate equipment such as a coat, raincoat, raincoat, and the shoes then went out after taking the flashlight. The atmosphere of the house is so empty. All the inhabitants seem to be sleeping soundly so that no matter the person who is sneaking out.
The drizzle that adorns the air is now only a small grain without meaning, will not make it soaked. The moon is still seen hanging in the sky even though it is no longer with a strong accent because the sun beam has begun to guide the day even though the sun itself has not shown its nose in the horizon line. The mysterious old man stood in the front yard, his position looking back as if to ensure that Yudi would follow him. Yudi put on a jacket hood to protect his head from drizzling before following the mysterious man.
Yudi tried to walk as fast as possible in order to catch up with the man but somehow the distance between them still could not be cut by him. It made him wonder, wondering how Wayan was still able to walk that fast. With a distance wide enough, the two without feeling any further walked into the forest...
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Passing through the up-and-down plains several times, the young man finally arrived at the junction that seemed to be the end of the journey. The young man was more convinced because the man he was following so often looked back than before, as if he did not want Yudi to lose himself. After turning to the right of the fork and walking a few minutes finally Yudi arrived in an area overgrown with giant spruce trees with the slopes in the form of a stretch of weed and weeds as high as the knee.
Yudi looked around, looking around for where the mysterious man was and why he had brought him to this place. For some reason at that time Yudi felt this place was known. It felt like he had been in this place, not just this time but several times before.and when he saw the eik tree, which was different from other trees because the color of the bark of the trunk was paler...the tree was a tree that stood behind El's standard darts. A few meters back from this tree, El placed his junkyard trailer. This tree is also what he saw from behind the El stand that was destroyed after El told him how his standard dart was hit **** the forest the night before.
It's not wrong anymore. This is the place...
But where is everyone? Where's the circus? Have they left already? El did tell her that the circus would be gone in a few days but did not mention that their departure would be this fast.
Another possibility is that he was misplaced, this is not the place where the circus troupe was, because the village surrounding the circus tents should still be here even though the circus troupe left as he expected.
Yudi's heart beat as he walked around. This place brings a funny feeling, this place on one side is known while on the other side looks foreign. How could this place change in an instant? Though clearly he and Mirna had just visited the circus troupe yesterday.
The man complained as his foot hit something. He looked down and found that the wood resembled a pair of pegs hidden among the weeds. The stake was installed side by side, obviously deliberately made by human hands, and this makes Yudi more curious.
He spread the grass, plucking some strands that blocked the view, until shortly afterwards found a foundation of the house. Not a modern foundation with concrete, stone, and cement but the foundation of a house in the village...and it also seems not to be the village house at this time but from a more past time because people in this time no longer use adhesive mixture like the one below.
Followed by the foundation groove which then met with another foundation groove made of stones times, transverse from one side to the other, some are weathered or lost but then appear again on a column that can actually be drawn in a straight line. Arriving in the southeast part of the region he found a row of bamboo that stuck upright like a pole and worn wood eaten by termites. The row of bamboo seems to be part of the skeleton of a hundreds-year-old house that has long been forgotten because it was lost in the ingestion of nature when the shrubs thrive to cover it.
Under the recess of the weathered wood, Yudi was surprised by a hens who seemed to be incubating his eggs there. The chicken ran away from Yudi, leaving her three children who were only able to scatter. Maybe because he had never met another creature before, let alone a creature whose size was so large, the forest chicks were scared to death. For animals, creatures that have a larger size than themselves will certainly be very intimidating and instinctively they will consider the creature as a predator or bring danger.
But at that time Yudi realized there was something different, the hen who ran away was not coming back, he said, while the chicks still continue to prepare noisily even though he has moved a few meters away from the place. He decided to go back to the place where he found the chicks to find out.
The situation under the alcove was dark so he had to scatter the bushes and light a flashlight, at which time it was seen by Yudi that a snake passed slowly between the plants, which was a snake, it slid right in the direction where the chicks were. Their preparedness was not due to hunger but rather a frantic scream, or perhaps even asking their mother for help. The chicks apparently sensed danger lurking not far from the nest.
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