Ranula (Full History of Wounds)
Short Story

Two days passed without feeling. And it's been three days that Zoya has been stranded in the age that makes her still so confused and scared. Every waking up from her sleep, Zoya always hoped that she would return to her house, but what happened was that she still woke up in this age. Somehow he was able to return to his time. She already misses her normal life, her two best friends and also her parents. Although Zoya is not very close to her parents, Zoya really misses them.

These two days there's nothing Zoya has done. She only helped Aunt Nor harvest tubers like yams and also her garden vegetables. Also occasionally join prince Erlangga to catch fish. Zoya is also able to help Aunt Nor to treat the prince's wounds when aunt Nor is working or being targeted. And miraculously his wound in the chest of Prince Erlangga had begun to dry up. Though if given how deep the wound was, Zoya thought it would take a long time to heal, a week maybe. But the reality of his prince Erlangga is already good enough now.

At this time even prince Erlangga was practicing sword behind aunt Nor's cottage. He looks so dashing if he's serious like this. Zoya even just this time saw a man as cool as prince Erlangga. Even though he still felt strange about the appearance of this man.

"Prince, stop for a moment. Drink first. You still can't be tired. Afraid that your wounds will open again" Zoya exclaimed.

Prince Erlangga immediately stopped and looked towards Zoya. He sighed for a moment and walked up to Zoya. Sitting beside the girl while sipping the drinking water that had been provided by Zoya.

"Didn't it hurt to be brought to practice like that?" asked Zoya while looking at the flat-faced Prince Erlangga.

"No" she answered briefly.

Zoya just pursed her lips and looked forward.

"Didn't you miss your mother?" zoya asked arrived. Prince Erlangga immediately turned his head towards her.

"My mom?" asked Prince Erlangga again, his face slightly reacted to hearing that.

Zoya returned the gaze of prince Erlangga's eyes and nodded slowly.

"Yes, it's only been three days here, but I've been feeling homesick. Maybe I miss my mom" said Zoya. He had almost forgotten that he was performing as a person who had forgotten memories.

"You remember something?" ask prince Erlangga.

Zoya bowed and smiled bitterly.

"Yes, I see the shadow of a woman, and I think it's my mother" Zoya replied.

"Then what else do you remember. Maybe I can take you home if you remember a little bit about where you live" said Prince Erlangga.

Zoya shook her head and bowed more and more sadly. How could he tell the truth to Prince Erlangga. If to speak a little strangely, he would not understand. Ah, this is so sad. Why is he trapped in this age????

"I don't know" Zoya replied so softly.

Prince Erlangga looked at Zoya with pity. He knew there was confusion and deep fear in Zoya's eyes. Three days with the girl he knows as Ana makes the prince of Erlangga a little more know what is felt by Zoya. She must have missed her family and her memories that had been lost. Yes, that's what Prince Erlangga thought.

"You're beautiful and different from any girl I've ever seen. Is it possible that you are from the kingdom of Ratu prahari???" prince Erlangga asked at last.

"Queen Prahari??" who else is it, inner Zoya.

"Queen Prahari was a queen who led the kingdom of Prahari Kahyangan. The kingdom is famous for its beautiful girl, even the queen of Prahari is also famous for beauty that no one can match her. Maybe you're from there. The kingdom is located across the southern sea of Ranula" said Prince Erlangga.

And really, Zoya is getting so inexhausted with all this. The kingdom and everything that makes no sense makes Zoya really want to go crazy.

"I don't know the prince. Like it's not" Zoya replied directly.

"Why can you be so sure?" prince Erlangga asked, not liking it.

"Wouldn't it be my place, I'd be able to remember it a little bit when you mentioned it earlier. But this is not at all" Zoya replied.

Prince Erlangga immediately fell silent to hear him. It seems like it is.

Zoya again bowed sadly, she was already eager to go home.

"Have it, don't be sad, one day you'll remember everything. Now you better accompany me to the forest" asked Prince Erlangga

"For what?" ask Zoya directly

"Hunt, than you keep quiet like a fool here. Aunt Nor was also being targeted" said prince Erlangga while wearing a cloth covering his face and reaching for a spear that was leaning against the wall.

Zoya paused for a moment and looked at the prince, instead of him at home alone, she better come along.

"At least why aunt Nor wouldn't let me come along. I will be able to help him sell" Zoya grumbled as she followed the footsteps of prince Erlangga.

"People will be suspicious of seeing your rai. You are too beautiful for the size of the people of the lower caste" said Prince Erlangga.

Zoya frowned looking at the prince.

"Is that like a compliment to me?" ask Zoya with a funny smile. But prince Erlangga only snorted sultryly.

"You are really stupid, you can not distinguish between speech and praise" replied Prince Erlangga. Zoya immediately pursed her lips in annoyance.

"Will the royal people take me to the palace if I see my beauty?" ask Zoya.

"Yes, but it depends on who took you. If your beauty is up to the ears of the higher-ups and ministers of the kingdom, you will be their mistress. But if your beauty is up to the king's adviser, maybe you can be a lady-in-waiting or a concubine of the nobility there" replied Prince Erlangga.

Zoya shuddered at that. Why beauty is a scary thing in this age. In her day, beauty is good luck for every woman.

"It's scary, but it feels unfair" Zoya muttered.

"It's not fair how, it's been a law of nature for a long time. If you can look beautiful, only the nobility" said Prince Erlangga who apparently heard the words of Zoya.

"Then do I have to hide in my house for the rest of my life? Or is that not the case for married people?" ask Zoya again

"The married will also be brought, especially with low caste. The upper caste and the royal people have the right to buy them as slaves" said Prince Erlangga. Zoya's eyes immediately widened to hear that.

"Buy, as a slave?" muttered Zoya in disbelief. He still followed the footsteps of Prince Erlangga down the path in the forest.

"That's right. Why so cruel" Zoya muttered again.

Prince Erlangga immediately snorted a cynical smile hearing that.

"Why are you surprised. This has been happening for a long time. And you must be careful with your beauty is Ana" said Prince Erlangga with a smile full of meaning.

Zoya who looked at it instantly turned her face furiously. This age is really crazy.