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unfulfilled wishes: kunti 1 part 5

            “What is this, Sadewa?” Manda looked towards Sadewa with a confused look as Sadewa thrust out a long list of Alena's requests to Sadewa.

            “Alena who asked for it.”  Sadewa spoke with a slightly unconvinced face.

            “Alena who asked for it?” Manda repeated Sadewa's words with a face of disbelief.

            Sadewa nodded his head. “Ya.”

            Huft. Manda let out a long sigh looking at the long list in her hand Manda sat by Alena's bedside and looked at Alena's face sleeping in a coma for this month. “Didn't Alena want to meet her mother? Why does it seem like she feels good to be stuck there when me and Gala here are worried every day?? Even having a party like this? Is it possible that Alena has met her mother to have a party like this?”

            Sadewa shook her head hearing the many questions coming out of Manda's mouth. Sadewa is confused to answer how the questions are because what Alena is asking now takes a long time to give an explanation to Manda especially so that Manda can understand and understand Alena's situation.

            “What by doing this, Alena can come back soon?” Gala, who had listened to Manda and Sadewa in silence, asked and the question saved Sadewa a little from the long explanation she had to explain to Manda.

            “Yes. I cannot give a long explanation because some things related to the tomb of Durawa are secrets that we must keep. So ... I can only say that what Alena is asking for right now, will help her to get out of there before a hundred days.”

            “I understand. Let me find all this stuff, Sadewa.” Gala snatched the long list grasped by Manda and immediately rushed out of Alena's room to get all the items on that long list. 

            While Gala is away, Manda and Sadewa sit near Alena who is still lying in a coma. Manda who was cleaning Alena's face, continued her work again while talking to Alena as if Alena was still fine and could answer the question.

            “Is Alena okay there?” Manda suddenly asked Sadewa a question after several talks with Alena who was lying in a coma.

            “Ya, so far Alena is fine.”

            “What's he eating there? Where did he sleep there? Does he look skinny now??” Manda asked Sadewa many more questions and this reminded Sadewa of Alena who always asked him a lot.

            “I can only say that Alena is fine, Manda. Some things there are different to what is here.” Sadewa abbreviated many of the answers to Manda's questions quite succinctly.

            “What's different?”

            Sadewa looked at Alena's face lying quietly on the hospital bed. “There is no day and night. There is only a dark night without end.”

*

            “You really!!!” Sadewa complained to Alena when he finally returned with three large boxes to Durawa's tomb. “How much did you ask for!!!”

            “Sorry-sorry. But if you want to realize the desire of Kunti 1, we must really totality in working on it.”

Alena helped Sadewa who was entering three large dus of his request.  Sadewa came along with Gala who was standing right in front of the Durawa tomb gate. Alena took one of the smallest boxes that Sadewa had just put in. Meanwhile, Kunti 2, who joined Alena, helped take another box smaller than the other box. Before actually entering the gate of Durawa, Sadewa bailed with Gala who stood in front of the gate of Durawa - the barrier to the tomb of Durawa and the human world.  

“Trims, Gala.”

“Is Alena there?” Gala asked before Sadewa entered the gate of Durawa.

“Yes. But unfortunately .. You two won't be able to see each other, Gala. Alena could not see out the cemetery because she was currently just a wandering soul and stuck in Durawa cemetery. To be able to see humans, ghosts only need time let alone Alena who is tied to two worlds.  And you won't be able to see Alena because you didn't get into this funeral before getting my permission.”  Sadewa gave a brief explanation.

            “Quiet only.” Sadewa patted Gala on the shoulder. “I'll take good care of your friend while here.”

            “Thank you, Sadewa.”

            After bidding farewell, Sadewa entered the gate of Durawa and Gala walked away back to the settlement of K village.

            “Who helped you carry these three big boxes, Sadewa?” Alena is waiting for Sadewa near the gate of Durawa cemetery.

            “S-surya.” Sadewa lies to Alena for not wanting to make Alena aware of her true state. “Why ask?”

            “I thought you went with Gala and Manda. If you come along with them, I hope to meet them.” Alena's speech was in accordance with what Sadewa thought.

            “Take it easy, Alena. They're both fine waiting for you to come back.”

            Sadewa's words managed to make Alena calm and excited again. “Yes, thank you very much, Sadewa. You're really nice. I'm grateful to meet you here.”

            Alena along with Sadewa and Kunti 2 then split their respective tasks. Sadewa along with several other ghosts began to decorate the small land in Durawa cemetery with many decorations such as yellowish lights and some fireworks that will later be released into the dark night sky. Meanwhile Kunti 2 persuaded Kunti 1 because it had previously lost a bet with Kunti 2 when guessing when Sadewa would return. Kunti 2 relinquished its first win betting with Kunti 1 to help Alena.

            “What do you want to do?” Kunti 1 asked Alena and Kunti 2 when he found himself locked up in the hut.

            Kunti 2 and Alena gave a small smile looking towards Kunti 1 before finally helping Kunti 1 take a bath, changing into a smelly white outfit, he said, ripped here and there and no longer white. Kunti 2 learns from Alena to comb good hair and style her tangled hair using catokan from the human world.

            “It's really amazing.” Kunti 2 was surprised to see how Alena changed her matted hair like a broomstick turn straight and neatly arranged.

            Kunti 2 applied what he learned from Alena in just a short time to Kunti 1 and in a matter of a few hours, Kunti 1 now looks very much different. All thanks to new clothes, makeup from Alena and catokan from Kunti 2.  

            “What do you really want to do?” Kunti 1 continued to ask the question to Kunti 2 and Alena while in the hut. But ... the question then stopped being asked when Kunti 1 along with Alena and Kunti 2 came out of the cottage.

            “Happy birthday, Kunti 1.”  Alena along with Sadewa and several ghosts: Kunti 2, Kunti 3, Kunti 4, Pocong 1, Pocong 2, Pocong 3, Pocong 4, Tuyul 1, Tuyul 2, Tuyul 3, Tuyul 3, and others, Tuyul 4 and the puffed-head ghost spoke the sentence to Kunti 1.

            Duar .. duar .. duar ... Sadewa along with the ghost pocong then released fireworks into the night sky Durawa and made a lively little party in front of Kunti 1. Kunti 3 and Kunti 4 then went ahead with a tart cake ordered by Alena with a beautiful decoration on it.

            “Blow this candle, Kunti 1.” Alena and Kunti 2 said to Kunti 1.

            “Ke-why are you doing this for me?” Kunti 1 looked at Alena, Sadewa and all the ghosts present with puzzled gazes.

            “Create the small wish you want, Kunti 1. Celebrate birthdays with many of your friends and be reborn. That's why I put a number one candle on top of this cake.” Alena replied with a smile. “Do you not like it? This is my apology for making you angry and having to be tied to a chain called by Sadewa, Kunti 1.”

            Test ... test. Kunti 1 shed her tears hearing Alena's words. “Thank you for this little party. It was like a beautiful dream that I had always dreamed of. I thought this dream would never come true.”