Mystery of the Book of the Air
Early on
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Hi, my name is Jina, I am a student who attended one of the Pare Pare High School, I am still in 11th grade, everything seemed so mediocre that things I would never have expected happened and changed my view of day and night.
Today was a sunny day as usual, but today I was so excited! Because my school is holding an annual school festival.
My school held many competitions and one of the competitions held at the school festival was a dance competition.
I really like watching dance performances, especially the dance competition this year followed by my best friend Feni, Feni is very popular in my school, she became the target of the boys in the class and my older sister. Feni has a very positive character, friendly, smart and very charming look.
I was a little disappointed because the show was pushed back which was originally going to start at 20:00 to 21:00, and by the way the festival takes place from 16.00 to 22.00 does sound a bit long because considering this is an annual event that is only held once a year.
When I found out that the show was postponed I also planned to go home first and would get ready before leaving for the Festival while preparing a gift for Feni.
Hit the 20:30 mark and I was ready to go to the festival, I arrived at school, it turned out the lomba was almost started, and I was ready to go, from a distance Feni came up to me and told me that he got the number 3 to perform later.
“Eh Fen, by the way the dance you brought later what is Fen?”
Ask Feni
“hmm.. Actually it's a secret, but because my best friend who nanya so I have to digasi tau deh, I will bring the dance mappadendang Jina, this!! You saw it, right?? I've prepared a dimple for us to use dance”
Then I asked Feni again
“Continue, how many of your personnel are there?”
“We have 6 people Jina, later 4 people who mashed his dimples and two more people surround us while carrying incense”
“Oh if so you spirit well hopefully you will win!! Spirit!!”
The jury also called Feni's number to appear
“Sort number 3 are welcome to go up stage”
Feni's group went up on stage, Feni and five others began to set their initial position with a mortar of the grain in the middle of the stage.
The music is sung they began to dance very beautifully by singing the traditional Bugis song commonly used in the Mappadendang dance, but in the middle of the show there is something that makes me wonder! Feni's dance personnel had suddenly increased by one person and strangely again!! His clothes were not uniform with the other personnel.
The personnel wear green bodo clothes and saloko are quite small, but the personnel who appear out of nowhere is wearing black bodo clothes, black, and also wearing a very large saloko decorated with red stones in the middle of the saloko, I thought maybe this is a change in dance structure? Because indeed this personnel only circled from outside the dance circle made six other personnel as if he was dancing alone on stage.
In the middle of the dance!! The person suddenly turned around holding the incense that had lit itself, and then turned around and turned around very fast, and then my phone rang, when I saw that it was an incoming call from Dani.
“Halo Dani what's wrong?”
“Jina, sss..sa ssss.
I was a little bit clueless with what Dani said At that moment, her voice sounded vibrating and her breathing was a little heavy.
“Try your calm first, take a breath, keep you telling me what happened!!”
“sss.am Sam lost Jina”
I was very surprised when I heard the news, without thinking I immediately asked for the location of Dani and Sam, after I saw the location shared by Dani, he said, turns out the place they use for camping is Jompie forest. Without thinking I went straight to Dani's place, it didn't take me long to reach the Jompie forest, I saw Dani standing in front of the forest entrance.
“Dani!!”
“Jina!!”
Dani then approached me crying!! She felt so guilty that her friend Sam was missing, I calmed her down by saying.
“Quiet Dani, Sam must be fine kok”
“But I'm wrong Jina just try I did not invite him to camping here, maybe he does not have to disappear like this”
“You now do not have to blame yourself, we better call the police first to report the disappearance of Sam”
I called the police to report the disappearance of my friend Sam, but unfortunately our report was not immediately processed because it was not yet 24 hours from the disappearance of Sam. The police advised us to go home first, the police also said that tomorrow they just started the search process.
The next morning at school, I went in class and saw Feni waiting for me while sitting in my chair with an upset face.
“Jina I have to hear the reason I can accept why you suddenly disappeared when my dance performance yesterday started, provided you know I won 1 loh last night hmmm!!!”
“Sorry yahh Feni, last night something bad happened”
“haaah!! The bad thing? Wh why? You sick?”
“No not that, but Sam Feni, Sam was missing when he was camping last night with Dani in the forest of Jompie”
Hearing that Feni immediately fell silent and sat down on my chair, it was only natural that he reacted like that, considering Sam and Feni are cousins, Feni did not know that Sam was missing last night, because when the lomba is finished Feni goes straight home, cleans the body, then sleeps without checking his cellphone. Feni then cried hearing the bad news.
“Hiks…. Sam why did Jina disappear?”
I can't answer that question either because I haven't asked Dani about Sam's disappearance.
“I also don't really know how the chronology of Sam's disappearance, which I know, last night Dani, Sam and his friends went camping in the forests of Jompie”
“You've created a missing persons report for Sam?”
“It was last night, when Sam just disappeared , today the police like again doing a search in the forests of Jompie”
“We went there yuk Jina, I want to see how the search progress!!”
“Looks like we don't go there first, feared there will be a clue or fingerprint tampered with if we go in there!!”
After hearing that Feni left my chair and headed to her seat while putting her head on the table. I'm so worried about Sam and Feni, I actually want to find out what happened to Sam, but I need to figure out how Sam got lost, and the way to take information from Dani.
It just so happens that Dani is not going to school today, maybe because he again explained the chronology of Sam's disappearance to the police, I plan to go to his house later that night, actually I want to take Feni but it seems like Feni is currently very sad and I do not want to add to the burden of his mind.
“Assalamualaikum...!!”
“Waalaikumsalam”
It turned out that the one who opened the door was Dani's mother, Ira's aunt.
“Here's aunty?”
“oh there is a son above in his room, want aunt call down?”
“Bby aunt”
“Dani.. And, your friend has nih” nih<TAG1>
I heard footsteps coming down the stairs, and sure enough it was Dani.
“Eh, Jina what's wrong? Important until you come here?”
“This is about Sam's disappearance, I want to hear from you how he got lost?”
“Ha?? Why do you want to know?”
“Yah no papa, I just want to know doang”
“Ok then I will know you all that happened that night, but remember what I will know to you now I did not tell the police, and also!! You don't tell anyone!”
Dani then told from beginning to end what happened there that night, the story was nothing strange until Dani said that Sam went to urinate for a while on the riverbank, which is not the case, when Sam comes back! Dani saw Sam carrying a black book in front of him with the letter Lontara script, at that time I don't know what Sam did, he came out with the book and that's when Sam never returned.
“Where was the last time you saw Sam bring the book?”
“I had a glimpse of him when cooking noodles outside the tent, Sam leads to the downstream part of the river, I think he wants to pee again but it turns out he did not return-back”
Hearing that I thought something strange was going on here, I didn't want to think of anything unreasonable about Sam's disappearance, but the book made me think a little bit of that, uh, moreover, Jompie forest is known as a place that is rather haunted.
I decided to find out what had happened to Sam, and I was also curious about what book Sam had found, so there might be clues to take from the book.