SURVIVORS
Chaptre 91. No One Is Home Comfortable
After breakfast and talking, they returned upstairs. Then go back to spending time just with laziness.
Niken sat on the porch with a paper and pen. He was engrossed in drawing the mountain scenery in the distance then adding other things he wanted.
Angel sat down lazily. Letting the soft rays of the sun touch his cheeks.
"You daydreaming again?" The barrel suddenly touches Angel's shoulder and leaves her in shock.
"Where there is," elak Angel.
"Throughout breakfast you're out of focus and out of nowhere. What are you thinking?" search Laras.
"none. That's just how you feel." Angel got up from her seat, wanting to get out of it.
"Even Mr. Glenn looked at you dumbstruck with wonder" Niken said.
Angel's steps stopped immediately. He's turning.
"really?" tanyanya nervous.
Laras's eyebrows linked to Angel's attitude. He knows such an expression.
"Are you in love with her?" The barrel whispered softly in Angel's ear.
"What did you say? There's just one."
Angel rebutted and passed with a flushed face like a person caught peeping at people taking a bath. Barrel smiling knot.
"What did you whisper until he did?" ask Niken wonder.
"Secret. xixixiii.." The barrel laughed.
He instead sat down to enjoy the warm light of the sun of this world.
"With the sun like this, our skin will not burn even though sunbathing every day. It's comfortable."
"Do you want to stay here?" asked Niken while looking at the picture.
"Whatever the place is, nothing is as comfortable as home" replied Laras diplomatically.
"To be honest, it was my intention to invite Indra to stay in the beach area. We can live a normal and comfortable life there. But the thought of the pirate, made me stop telling Indra," said Niken.
Laras nodded in understanding.
"It is comfortable and beautiful. If it wasn't for wanting to go home, I would have thought the same."
"I even imagined we were forming a family and having cute kids there. Ahaha.." Niken laughed at his own thoughts.
Barrel responded with a small laugh. He smiled to himself. Didn't want to debate Niken, because maybe one day he will have similar thoughts. They're all grown-ups. Such thinking should be appreciated. And Laras. If anyone wants to stay, then no one should force to continue the journey that will either end at some point.
No one can promise that they can really go home. All of their steps were purely driven by a strong desire to go home while hoping to find Marianne and Michael back.
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Dean, Alan and Sunil return to the cave. They found the three women still sitting in the hallway leading to the stone room.
"Why sit there?" ask Alan.
"Here it is colder," answered the Goddess straightforwardly.
"Ahh.you're right. Hot air coming in from outside." Alan replied.
"These cattle are also overheated," the Goddess pouted.
"Just flush with the pool water" replied Dean.
"Z, pick up all your luggage and their backpacks" Dean ordered.
Alan moved his hand and all the objects other than the farm animals, had been lifted up and floated in the air.
Dean pulled the pool water with the movement of his hands to slide towards the sheep, chickens and rabbits. The animals were doused by Dean with water several times. They're soaking wet. The dust that is attached to it goes down with the water. But the floor got wet and muddy. But Dean did not stop cleaning the large cave room until the entire corner of the cave was wet and shedding dust.
"O, can you blow dirty water on that floor to drain out?" dean asked Sunil.
O fly to the side of the cave and blow the floor full of dirty water with warm air. Pushing it towards the water channel out of the cave.
Dean pulled back the water from the pool, drifted towards the cave door, pulled it higher than the cave door, just dropping the pool of water. It was Dean's doing so that the contents of the pool in the cave were almost empty.
"It's not too dusty anymore, but the hot air is not completely gone. We have to close the cave so that hot air and dust particles don't come in." Dean explained.
"You drained the pool water" pointed Nastiti towards the nearly empty pool.
Dean smiles.
"It's okay, later this pool will again be filled with cleaner water droplets," he replied.
"Watch another bathtub. Later the water is filled again by water droplets from the ceiling of the cave." Widuri.
"Z, you can put that down now. Help me close the door to this cave" Dean asked.
The three of them cooperated in closing the cave door and took some large boulders so that the cave was completely sealed.
Widuri, Nastiti and Dewi sort out the things that Alan brought the night before.
Most of the vegetables have withered due to the fairly hot air. Some can still be cooked for dinner later. But quite a lot of apples, plums and lemons are still very fresh. It could be a snack this afternoon. The rest is their livestock. Enough for 2 days feed.
They start their daily activities as usual. But this time, they prepared it in the dining room with a stone table. 2 large bowls of fruit and vegetable salads are ready and served at the table. The goddess made lemonade for that refreshing drink in the hot air.
Nastiti walked to the cave to take the three men to lunch inside. There were only 3 stone benches there. So Sunil took out the 3 wooden benches he kept last night, for the women to sit on. They savored the fresh dish voraciously while discussing the next plan.
"So you're planning on making a waterway around the cottage area?" Widuri.
"Yes. I think that's all we can do to help restore the dry and hot soil conditions. Let the water moisten the soil slowly." replied Sunil.
"alright. That nice. However, after some time and rain, all the flying dust will again settle and fertilize the soil." The goddess supports the plan.
"When do we start our journey? The cattle feed is left for tomorrow." Widuri asked with great emphasis.
"Today we're going to make a waterway. Tomorrow Sunil and you help collect coal for our supplies down there. While Alan and I prepared a stone staircase to go down. How's it?" ask Dean.
"Agree," replied Widuri quickly.
The others also nodded and agreed with Dean.
That afternoon Dean, Alan and Sunil returned to the scene of the fire. Alan piled up several stones making the flow of water so split in two from the actual path.
With a movement of his hand, Dean and Alan made waterways into the surroundings. It took a lot of effort, because the ground was no longer as soft as clay, but it was already like a brick after being exposed to high heat. Each time water flows through the gap, hot steam instantly soars and the water evaporates again and the soil remains dry.
"Ignore that. It takes time until this dry soil is again moist and can grow grass. These waterways will be first fertile and green." Alan looked optimistic.
"Let's go back. This area is done. This is all we can do. Next depends on the generosity of nature." Sunil floated up to see the results of their work that looked like a tangled labyrinth swirling in all directions.
"We made a labyrinth!" shouted Sunil.
Alan and Dean went up and saw the results of their work.
"Hahaha.it's more like a drunken rat's path than a maze," Alan laughed out loud.
Dean laughed at how the waterway filled the area. But let. Their plan was to restore the entire area.
"We just hope it rains soon so the air can be cleaner."
Sunil smiled with satisfaction.
"Let's go back and clean up." Dean asked.
"Where to clean yourself? The pool water you've spent bathing the sheep." Alan chirped.
"We go to the shower there." take Sunil.
"alright. Come on."
The three drifted along to the water fountain that their water flow shared throughout the farm.
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