SURVIVORS
Chapters 101. Lost Goddess
After breakfast, doctors Chandra and Silvia visit Mr. Felix. There was already waiting for his wife and physician Michfur. A loud laughter broke out from the room until it was heard in the hallway where Chandra's doctor had just arrived.
"Doctor's coming" said the guard.
The door opens from the inside. Doctor Chandra stopped at the door. The physician Michfur was opening the window to change the air. Mrs Felix still had a little laugh.
"I just farted the doctor. Can I eat already?" ask her with a funny mimic.
Doctor Chandra smiled widely and nodded.
"Tabib please help Silvia prepare breakfast." asked Dr. Chandra.
They both left the room. A medicine room servant pushed a small table containing clean cloths and a container of water and wound medicine.
"I checked first, then examined the wound" Chandra said.
Glenn came in when Dr. Chandra had just opened the bandage.
"How's doctor?" tanyanya wants to know.
Doctor Chandra let Glenn see the sewn wound.
"seems good. While it will still hurt very much. But healers will always provide pain medication. We wait for the development for the next 2 days."
Dr. Chandra cleans the wound with alcohol and then applies a mixture of drugs to close the wound. Then cover it with a cloth and wrap it around Mr. Felix's waist.
"Tomorrow we change the pads and the medicine" explained Dr. Chandra.
Doctor Chandra listened carefully to Mr. Felix's heartbeat. Then recorded everything he did that morning.
"After breakfast, and if it is strong sit down. Can go back to the room. But the room had to be cleaned first, change the bedding and a new clean blanket. The wound is prone to infection." Dr. Chandra explained.
"I'll get the room ready, baby." Mrs Felix is out of the operating room immediately.
"Ehem.."
Doctor Chandra is small-headed.
"What does the doctor want to ask?"
Mr. Felix is very sensitive.
"At that time, the king showed me a paper with writing that is commonly used in some countries in our world. His Holiness said that you often tell about the distant country you visit. Can you tell us how to get there?"
Doctor Chandra conveys their desire to return to their world again. If Mr Felix ever goes and comes home from that place, doesn't that mean he knows the way there?
Mr. Felix glared at the ceiling of the room. Remembering the journey of his youth.
Tok tock..
Michfur's physician came in, followed by Silvia. A waiter brought a bowl of oat porridge with a sprinkling of chicken milk and a broth of yellow by turmeric.
Mr. Felix seemed impatient to enjoy his first meal after the operation. Glenn fed his father painstakingly and patiently. The bowl was empty quickly. Mr. Felix looks very satisfied.
"You can rest. If the room is ready, you can move. But the hearts do not let the stitches open again. Excuse me first."
Doctors Chandra and Silvia resign. Michfur's physician followed behind. They should discuss Mr. Felix's next cure.
In the room.
"Are you going to tell them the truth?" ask Glenn.
Mr. Felix nodded.
"After all these efforts, don't they deserve honesty." replied Mr. Felix.
Glenn did not answer. Something else is troubling his mind now. That girl he hadn't seen for a few days. But it cannot be removed from his mind.
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It's been 3 days for Dean's team to go down the transparent dividing wall and mark it. The stone mountain they had occupied all this time, was already sealed. Dean is very good at making optical tricks. People who have never entered the cave, would not have expected there are large caves and passageways and rooms in the stomach of the mountain. Even the stairs down which Dean had originally made, were again removed and used to partially seal the cave room where they found the bodies of O and Z. The cave room was small again.
The rest of the stone steps were made into the wall of the cottage where they slept. The stone wall was covered with sheepskin that was sewn and spliced until it was wide enough.
After a tired day, in the afternoon they were taken to fly up the mountain and bathe in the shower. Although still clumsy, but Widuri no longer act snugly to Dean. He's trying to understand that Dean's not a romantic. But he is ready to help any of their friends who are in trouble.
The work that moved further away, made Dean move the location of their residence to a closer place. Assisted by Alan, the lifting-lifting job became easier.
That day the sun was hotter. Everyone chose to rest and take shelter inside their cold stone house.
"When we can find a way out this way," grumbled the Goddess while fanning her clothes.
"Yes patient. The wall cannot be cut. There's no other choice but to check the whole place."
Sunil patiently explained that question again, that again.
"Russiaaaannn.. There is nothing to look at but this barren land," complained Nastiti.
By late afternoon, the temperature of the hell path was back down. So always. Where at night the temperature gets lower and makes the body shiver cold.
The six men returned down the transparent wall. The sky in the horizon began to redden the copper.
"We should stop and take a shower. It's time to prepare dinner."
The goddess who was squatting, stood up suddenly. His body is a little shaky. He tried to reach for the transparent wall to balance the standing position so as not to fall. But he felt compelled to fall backwards.
"Aaaaaaahhh. please."
The cry of the Goddess surprised all the friends who were still cool at work. But Nastiti who stood not far from it tried to reach the hand of the Goddess to keep it from falling.
But, the body of the Goddess actually disappeared in front of his eyes.
"Goddess!" Nastiti panicked.
"Where is he?" ask Widuri for confusion.
He heard the screams of the Goddess. When he looked, his friend was no longer there.
"He's missing there. He vanished right in front of me."
Nastiti pointed at the part of the transparent wall that they had not marked.
"I think this is another world's gap. Let me follow her first so she doesn't worry. You guys clean up the others and catch up with me."
Sunil felt that part. His hand went in. There's no wall there. All his friends saw that too. He immediately darted in following the Goddess.
"You two wait here. Mark this part of the wall. Me and Alan will keep all our stuff before we catch up with Sunil and Dewi."
Dean thought fast. Nastiti and Widuri nodded in understanding. Alan and Dean flew towards their stone cottage. For Dean and Alan, the stone cottage wasn't that important. But saving the immortal spring stones was the most important thing.
The two hurriedly stored all of their possessions into a storage necklace. The place was now clear of any trace of their existence. Dean poured out most of the contents of the water jug that was too full, so as not to wet the storage space.
"It's done." Report Alan.
"Let's follow Sunil and Dewi" greeted Dean excitedly.
In anticipation of the situation, Alan hugs Nastiti, Dean hugs Widuri. They broke through the gap at the same time.
"Aaaaaaaaaahhhh"
There was a long cry of four people who were falling rapidly as if being pulled from the sky.
Byuurr...
Blup. blup..
The sound of things splashing in water and drowning.
It happened very quickly. They can't think. Dean and Alan had even forgotten that they could actually fly.
Byuurr heard other falling objects in the water.
Sunil plunged in with annoyance. 'You can fly, why did it fall into the water?' inner wonder.
"Ohuk.. uhuk.."
"Are you conscious?" ask Sunil.
"Yes, thank you Sunil," replied Widuri.
"Where's the Goddess?" ask Nastiti dizzy.
"If you're conscious, Dean, Alan, you grab them and fly. Fly.don't forget. I'm looking for the Goddess again. Must've splashed that water. But I haven't found it."
Sunil took his hold off Dean and Alan. The two immediately grabbed Widuri and Nastiti in each other's arms.
Sunil immediately darted and splashed again into the water. Byuurr..
It was only then that the four realized that the surface of the water was vast. That was why Sunil lifted them up and continued to drift, not ushering them to the edge.
"What is this place?"
"Is this the sea?"
"We swallowed the water when we drowned. The water's not salty."
"What river is this big?"
They asked each other, answered and denied. But until Sunil was tired, the answer and the Goddess were still not found.
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