SURVIVORS
Chaptre 262. Funeral
"Take the body into the living room" doctor Chandra ordered.
Dean lifted the body that lived in a skeleton wrapped in dry and wrinkled skin. He carried it carefully, into the middle room.
Aslan was surprised to see the body floating in the air and then laid beside his mother.
"Mother...." The old woman whispered softly. The arm bone that was near him. "I miss you so much. We'll meet again."
"Mom don't say that" Aslan said.
But the woman ignored him. He kept looking to the side, like he had gained a bit of new strength. "Mom, this is my son, your grandson. Bless him" he whispered.
Doctor Chandra took the star emblem on the body's chest.
"A, did you bring an information panel?" ask Ruler.
"Yes." Yeah." Dean took out the stone panel he had brought from the rock mountain.
The star's symbol is pinned on the panel. Dean's hand was also placed there. A beam of golden light enters the panel and activates it. A blue light containing data floated in the middle of the house. Aslan and his mother were confused to see that.
Doctors Chandra, Robert and Dean, read the information. Everything was complete until the moment the Sovereign's sister's death arrived. Doctor Chandra nodded. All the data disappeared again.
Now they know the truth of the events in the cave of the small world. There was another party who encouraged the teleportation doorkeeper to do evil, and died at the hands of that person. A black-winged man, who his sister threw into teleportation with no way back.
And about his journey and his life being stranded on this island after that fight. Where he himself could not return to the small world he guarded. His difficult life is extraordinary, when the islands are still filled with several tribes who fight over each other's territory. Until the day of death he prepared.
Doctor Chandra wiped his tears. Now comes his affection for Aslan's mother. From the information available, Dr. Chandra knows, the woman has taken care of her sister very well and lovingly.
"Because you're my sister's granddaughter, then now you're also my granddaughter. You, you can come with us, if you want," doctor Chandra told Aslan.
"I have to take care of my mother" he refused.
"Go, say hello to your grandfather!" push mom.
Aslan complied and saluted Chandra's doctor.
Doctor Chandra's hand touched his head. A glittering white light wrapped around his hand and peeked inside Aslan's head.
Before long, the light was gone. Aslan was still dumbfounded. He had a lot of information in his head. Something completely new to him.
"Mother, I see magical things in my mind. About the humans who can fly to and fro in blue space," the story is spontaneous.
His mother looked with a smile. There was pride in his heart. "You should be able to keep your grandfather's secret" his mother said.
"Yes, Mom. I promise!" he still said with a face full of amazement.
"Mom can calm down now. Su-dah someone will guard you," he said softly and stammered.
"Mother!" aslan was surprised. She was holding her mother's body again.
"L-lady...." The woman breathed her last breath.
"Mother! Mama!" called repeatedly.
Dr. Chandra approached the two. His sister's body was touched until it vanished into storage. Then check out Aslan's mother's pulse.
After confirming, doctor Chandra shook his head. "Your mother is gone" he said sadly.
"Mother...."
Aslam hugged his mother's skinny body and cried.
"How, Ruler?" robert asked through a voice transmission.
"He's doing my brother a favor. I want to bury my sister side by side with her daughter in a small world...."
"But how do we explain to the people here, if he's not buried here?" ask Dean.
"We'll eat pretend" suggested Robert.
"Your father can too. But we'd better ask Aslan's opinion first." Doctor Chandra considers Aslan's feelings.
Now the three of them looked at Aslan who was already as excited.
"Aslan, your mother's death should be announced soon. We should bury him today. But we have a good plan. Whether you agree or not" Dean opened the conversation after Aslan stopped crying.
"What are your plans?" his question with his eyes began to swell.
"I want to bury your mother side by side with my sister in a better place" Dr. Chandra said.
"Cannot be. Mother is the unifier of this group. If the bodies are taken away, they will be very lost" Aslan said.
"We've thought about it. We pretended to eat your mother here, but it turns out we kept her and buried her with her mother's body somewhere else" Dean explained.
"Is that possible?" ask Aslan in wonder.
"We'll arrange it, if you agree." Robert convinced.
"alright. I'm sure you want to be eaten with grandma." Aslan agrees.
"Okay, let's move fast!"
Robert explained the plans in his head. Dean, Chandra and Aslan's doctors agree.
The marble stone coffin was returned to its original position. Aslan's mother's body was also laid back on her bed on top of the coffin.
Aslan started going to visit one of his neighbors, telling him about it. It didn't take long, the small group on the island came to meet the courtyard of Aslan's house. They could see the body of their teacher's daughter from the window, and from inside the house.
Then Aslan told her mother's last message, to be buried along with the coffin her mother had prepared. The place was a little bit of an uproar. But then it calmed back down after seeing that the woman was every day indeed sleeping on top of the stone coffin.
Finally, the last message was approved to run. They're looking for the tallest place on a small island to be a cemetery. Dean followed. He had measured the size of the coffin, to make a fitting hole.
As Dean cut the stone with his finger, the people there cried out in amazement. But they were still quick to help take out all the tansh and stones, so that there was enough room to enter the coffin.
Some others transported beach sand that would be used to stockpile tombs.
It was a hot day, everything was ready. The coffin was removed. Seeing his mother's body placed at the bottom of the chest, Aslan shed another tear. Doctor Chandra comforts him.
Dean and Robert lifted the stone chest up the hill. The people followed up the hill as a last salute.
Then the stone slabs of the crates are arranged one by one around the stone wall. Then the body was inserted. Robert managed his position well. Dean put a marble buffer on one part of the wall.
"Aslan, we're going to shut it down," cried Dean.
"Yes, close it," he said, nodding.
Dean then lifted another marble slab and mounted it in a snarl. Robert and Dean set the stone in position, rising above the body.
"Can you get it, Dean?" robert asked through a voice transmission.
"Attent. Dean was a little serious about the marmet stone that was mounted on the assailant. But dis is actually reaching out to Aslan's mother's body.
"Okay, I've kept it, '" Dean said. They immediately completed the installation of the stone plate neatly.
"It has. The sand can be put in." Robert gave a cue while coming out of the hole.
People continued the funeral until it was over and the holes were all buried. At the end, Dean again put the marble stone as the cover of the tomb.
The funeral was over. There is a sense of sadness of loss, but new hope also arises. The presence of Aslan's grandfather, makes them optimistic to live better later. They eventually returned to their homes.
Aslan long stood at the edge of the tomb, contemplating the life cycle. From there, to nothing. Even for a superhuman like her grandmother, death remains inevitable.
"Let's go back" Dean asked. Aslan nodded. Dean took him flying, to get back to his house.
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