Mystery of the Book of the Air
The Foreign Forest

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I can't stand my worry about Sam! I better start moving. I was planning to go to the Jompie forest at 00:00, because I know there are still police searching there, after talking for a long time, he said, I went home on a good-bye with Dani and Aunt Ira.

Arriving at home I immediately prepare the goods and equipment I need to enter the forest Jompie, I check the clock in my hand, the clock shows at 23:45! This means that I have to move into the forest, I search there and here to find the secret path that I made when I was a child.

When I was a little forest I made a place to play, because on the edge of this forest is very beautiful, chirping birds interlocked, clear river water, clear water, the sunlight that penetrates the leaves that make this forest look like the background of a fairy tale book.

But! Everything I thought and felt as a child changed! I now realize that this forest is not as beautiful and friendly as I saw.

I found the secret path I was looking for, I set foot in this forest after all this time, and sure enough! This is not a forest I knew as a child, the atmosphere really changed a lot, maybe you think *maybe because it is already night* No!! I have entered this forest day and night, and I know the ins and outs of this forest rim, but I don't know why this forest seems unknown to me! I feel like this forest doesn't want me here.

At the beginning of my journey I felt the leaves that were there as if closing anything that wanted to try to get out or in from this forest.

But I ignored that and continued my search, and I went to where Dani and Sam were last camping, and I saw that there was already a police line surrounding Dani and Sam's tent! Since I didn't want to disturb the clues that were there, I decided not to enter the tent.

But to make sure that no one was missed I went around the tent where Sam was last seen, and actually this detail was not told to the police at all, he only told me about Sam last seen around the tent, which is probably why there was no police line around the river.

I also went downstream, when I saw something sparkling and shining under the dry leaves that I stepped on, I bent down and began to clean the leaves on the object, and it turned out to be a silver ring that had carvings of lontara characters on each side! With a red stone in the middle of the ring.

I was stunned for some time when I saw the ring so I took the ring and continued my search downstream.

After reaching downstream of the river, I saw the flow was very calm and slow. I also began to descend on the rocks on the edge of the river, when I reached the bottom I began to hint what was around the place, but unfortunately there was no clue at all to the trace of Sam's whereabouts.

When I felt like I was searching every part downstream of the river, I thought about just going home.

I turned around to take back my things and was about to go up to the riverbank, but as I tried to climb up to the riverbank! Somehow the river water suddenly overflowed, I was swept away by a very heavy stream until it made me faint.

My head felt heavy, I looked around me faintly, I started slowly to get up from where I was and strangely I was still alive! I mean it was a huge flood of water until the part of the shirt on my left was torn! Probably because of the wood when I was in the water.

I looked around and I woke up in a very strange but beautiful place at the same time.

the shape is like a cave, on each wall there is a sentence that reads a lot of lontara script, but unfortunately the sentence is irregular like deliberately damaged by someone.

As I looked around this place, I suddenly saw a book on the rocks, I walked closer to the book, and, seen from a distance if the book cover is black and also has a yellow paper.

The curiosity that came out of my brain made me open the book! It turns out that in the book contains sentences that are littered with littara, I then remembered the story of Dani who said that Sam got a book that is black, black, but Dani himself didn't know what the book was, so I wondered if this book was what Dani meant?

I picked up the book and rushed out of this place.

After coming out of the mouth of the cave! I looked around to look for the path leading to the secret exit, but I didn't know which way to get me back, I was already dragged down by the river that made me drift off somewhere, somewhere, but I tried to focus and look back around me to figure out a way back out of this forest.

After a while of observing around me! I saw a woman in the distance holding a candle, and my curiosity began to arise, I mean! What the woman in the middle of the forest was doing was holding a candle, but it turned out that I realized, I was also a woman in the middle of the forest alone.

As I forgot about the woman I was so happy that I found Dani and Sam's tent, I turned back to look for the woman with the candle! It turns out that woman has disappeared.

It's so strange, a woman carrying a candle, in the middle of the forest, and just want to take a walk through the woods in the middle of the night? I was struggling with my head about this woman, but suddenly I remembered that I had to get out of this forest, and I rushed down the path that led to the secret entrance.

I started running small down this path but for some reason this forest is really very strange, the tree seems to be holding me back from here, I lost my way because the forest is like a change of shape.

I was confused and scared! because the atmosphere had started to feel strange, the wind was blowing very hard, the branches and branches of trees began to fall which almost hit me.

Since the conditions were already very unlikely for me to continue on my way out of here, I tried to find a safe place to take shelter! I saw to my left a tree that had a big enough hole at its bottom, I ran as fast as I could towards the hole in the tree to keep me safe for now, I sat down and hugged my two legs which made me fall asleep.

A warm wind blew towards my face that made me start to open my eyes from sleep, I went out of the hole of the tree and saw that the storm had stopped.

I then look at the clock on my phone to check when it is at what time, it turns out the clock has shown at 04:30, it means 15 minutes more adhan dawn reverberate, he said, surprisingly suddenly the path that I went through when I entered was already able to see, after a while I walked, I was finally able to get out of the forest.

Arriving at home, I opened the book I got in the forest, it looks like a book that is very old and contains writing that uses the letters of the littara script.

Lontara script is a letter used by Bugis people in ancient times to communicate through writing, usually also Lontara writing can be found in ancient temples of the Bugis tribe, or inscriptions of former kingdoms.

Fortunately I knew a little bit about reading the Lontara script, when I started reading, I saw one of the writings that confused me, "A'beang kanja'na alai ja'na" which means throw away the good and take the bad, which means, I did not understand the meaning of those words at all, I then contacted my Bugis Language teacher Nana's mother to interpret those words.

"Mother's Assalamualaikum"

"Waalaikumsalam nak Jina, what are you calling mom so early? "

"Oh this ma'am I want to ask, I have a book that contains the phrase lontara ma'am, but I do not really understand what is meant by that sentence ma'am"

"What does that sentence say? "

I then answered in a stammer

"A-abeang kanja'na a-aalai ja'na"

Suddenly Hani's mother raised her voice

"Jina!! That's Jina's bad word!! Where did you see that word"

"I saw it in a book I found mom"

"You keep the book, don't read it, tomorrow you meet me and bring the book you read"

I began to feel bad by hearing Nana's response, she sounded very frightened heard the sentence I said, I then closed and kept the book in my closet like what Mother Nana said.