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Chaptre 269. Soul Transfers
Aslan was stunned as he looked at the other world in front of him. A completely different place. Green forests and flourishing wheat fields.
"Is there no night here?" ask Aslan.
"Of course there is. We have never calculated the time difference here with the outside world" Sunil said.
"Come on!" Doctor Chandra is ahead of. Robert took Aslan and followed. Sunil followed. They headed towards the stage house.
Seen from a height, the women were cool in the waterfall pool.
"We're back" said Doctor Chandra.
"Oh, great. More crowded, more cool," smile Niken.
"Let me guess. She should be your granddaughter Aslan, right?" guess Marianne.
"Greetings, Auntie," Aslan said respectfully.
"Ah .. You're very polite." Marianne mangosteen.
"Where are Dean and Indra?" ask Robert.
"I want to eat oysters. So Indra looked for him to the beach. Dean's gone, "Niken said.
"You guys should rest first. We'll have some seafood for dinner" Marianne suggested.
"alright. Let's take a break" said Dr. Chandra. They went to the stage house and sat there. Sunil takes a drink from the perennial spring, to restore energy.
Then Sunil laid his body on the bench. His eyes were drowsy and his body had reached its limit.
"Why don't you guys go back to your own house?' reprimand Doctor Chandra.
"Let's miss dinner!" robert Sahut. He's lying on another bsngku.
"Let's go home. I also want to rest for a while," Doctor Chandra asked.
Aslan was taken flying towards the tiny house opposite the stilt house.
"You can rest here for a while."
Doctor Chandra points to an empty room with a window facing the flower garden and a contact-box of honeybees.
"Yes, Grandpa." Aslan nodded. He immediately sat on the only long wooden bench in the room. Her gaze was directed towards the flower garden.
"The air is clean and cold. It is different from the beach area where I live. It's very comfortable here" murmured Aslan.
The man's eyes were heavy and sleepy. But his gaze was fixed on the unique and beautiful house in pink and purple, nun far away on the edge of the forest.
Aslan smiled, remember Indra who bought that color paint in town. "So it's Uncle Indra's house."
Through another window, a large two-story house on stage appears. Painted in Navi blue with jet black poles. Looks very sturdy.
"Based on what Grandpa said to Uncle Robert, then it must be Dean's house" he concluded.
"How does Uncle Robert and Uncle Sunil's house look?" Aslan could not wait to see this world further.
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After dinner.
"I'm thinking of burying my sister and her daughter tomorrow" said Dr Chandra.
The others agreed. "It's about time" said Widuri.
"good. Tomorrow morning I'll make her grave. Just tell me the place." Dean responded.
"Tomorrow we shall see together" broke up Dr. Chandra.
"Dean, please take out two slabs of rock. I'll get their bodies out" Doctor Chandra ordered.
"Good!"
Dean took out some black stone plates and arranged them like a table. Now there were two stone tables in that large room.
Doctor Chandra took out his sister's dried frame inside the marble stone box. Put the body on the stone table.
"Cover it with cloth, and water it with eternal springs!" doctor Chandra's orders again.
Marianne went upstairs, where she put down the sewing machine and all her gear.
Marianne came down with a piece of white cloth in her hand. Then the cloth was used to cover the body from his neck to his feet.
Aslan noticed a strange thing the women were doing. But seeing everyone behaving normally, Aslan did not dare to open his mouth. So just watch what happens.
But, his eyes long ago became wide-eyed. He could see the changes in his grandmother's skeleton.
Slowly but surely, the body is recovering. Aslan closed his mouth, so as not to ask questions to explain the impossible.
Doctor Chandra took out an object from his storage. That's his sister's necklace. He took something there, and handed it to Marianne.
"Please put on this outfit, on her," asked Dr. Chandra.
Marianne took the clothes she was given. "You can go out first" replied Marianne.
So the men came out of the house and sat down on a long bench by the pool.
A few moments later.
"You can come back!" call Niken.
Dr. Chandra is speeding up the fastest. He could not wait to see his sister again.
When the others returned, what they saw was a very touching sight. Doctor Chandra cried and asked his sister to talk. His sister's tangled hair.
"I'm sorry, I can't understand your way of thinking" he said. But I'll bury you well.
After the hair came back neat, Doctor Chandra asked Marianne to come closer.
"Marianne, you're the one who deserves my sister's soul the most. Your wisdom can control his hot blood and emotions. Will you?" please Doctor Chandra.
"Isn't there Widuri or Niken?" elak Marianne's.
"They're pregnant. It should not be disturbed like this" explained Dr. Chandra.
"Thank you," persuaded Niken. Widuri also supported him.
"Why not just his grandson?" Marianne still refused.
"Aslan is a man. It's impossible to do that. Can be the opposite." Dr. Chandra explained patiently.
"alright. But, I think he'll regret it." Marianne fell apart.
"No! I'll make sure he's grateful for this" Doctor Chandra promised.
Robert advanced and handed his commanding knife to Doctor Chandra. Doctor Chandra smiled. Marianne is approaching. His hands extended out in front of Doctor Chandra.
Aslan looked in horror. Anxious if the man he called the grandfather, sacrificed others for his will.
"Grandfather, wait! What the hell are you doing here? Poor Marianne," stop Aslan.
"What do you mean?" ask Dr. Candra astonished.
N-don't you want to kill him?" aslan was confused.
"Maha." The whole room was full of laughter.
"There's nothing to kill here" Robert explained with a laugh.
"Oh I'm sorry. Did I interrupt the ceremony?" Aslan was embarrassed.
"Yes ... stand on the sidelines and look at the ceremony. You'll understand later, okay?" whispered Dean.
"Well," replied Aslan blushing in embarrassment.
Doctor Chandra turned back to face the stone table. The hand of Marianne. Then the knife Robert gave was used to injure Marianne's finger. He pressed the finger slowly, and dropped a drop of blood on his sister's forehead on the stone table.
Aslan could see a greenish-yellow light shrouding her grandmother's body. Then also snatched Marianne's body, until lifted up. And the small world was filled with Marianne's shrill screams high, enduring the pain she was in.
Aslan so retreated in fear his pale face still saw the scene before his eyes.
"What the hell is going on? What did Grandma do to Grandma? To Aunt Marianne?" thought upset.
You just calm down. Hope this ceremony goes well" whispered Indra.
"Did this happen often?" ask Aslan to know.
"This is called a soul-transfer ceremony. Everything will be explained later. You will understand why this must be done" explained Robert to appease Aslan.
"alright. I just hope Marianne won't have a serious injury." Aslan nodded in understanding.
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