The Angkara Murka
The Book of Obong - Shaman
"Well, it's clear that Wong Ayu's father was a shaman. The powerful shaman. To the extent that he could see the future," muttered one of the village teenagers who was slightly older than Satria Piningit.
Satria Piningit only raised the tip of her lips slightly. His name is hope and prayer. So if the prayer is fulfilled, it is because the hope is realized and the prayer is granted by the Almighty, not the other way around that is because we know what will happen, a child is named after our vision. That's what Satria Piningit thought.
This thought made Satria Piningit aware of something. Priyam has a point. Villagers from the young to the senile are still involved in things that smell magical and mystical. They still like to hear and discuss gossip around the clenic and supernatural. Is Satria Piningit starting to be able to see this village and its citizens from different sides? Or, perhaps, all this is just a justification of himself when he saw a beautiful girl who seemed far from the impression of living in the shamanic world of his parents.
As expected from the beginning, the excitement about the arrival of this family only lasted less than two weeks. Village people are not too interested in discussing the beauty of the family's teenage children who actually like not to like to be recognized as having above average beauty. Satria Piningit meant, of course above the average of these village girls.
This he knew not only because from the beginning the boy had a sense of Wong Ayu, but also from the conversation of the boys in the village, he said, even the mothers and their daughters agreed.
Village people clearly tend to enjoy their own storytelling and artificial imagery of this family as a shaman family. One of the food evidence of their artificial imagery is when every day people in luxury cars come to the village, park their smooth cars and mingle in front of Wong Ayu's house. The villagers consider the rich people to be the 'clients' of Mr Wong Ayu who pay and use the services of pesugihan.
"Lah, his name is also the seller of antiques, which comes must be rich. It is an item with priceless artistic and historical value" Satria Piningit said fiercely in a plea to Wong Ayu's family.
"Ah, not your style. Like you understand. Wong your big and luxurious house just like that is not much antiques really. Modern all. There are tipi, great tips and complete son systems and often play mixed sari songs. Never mind, believe me, they are shamans" replied Satria Piningit again in a very irritating manner of speaking.
Satria Piningit does not deny that his house which he occupied in Obong village is indeed quite large. On the land owned by the mbahnya, there are three main buildings and one pendopo and extensive courtyard land. As his friend explained, three main buildings and one pendopo there is indeed ancient style and that not a few classic items that are indeed said to have existed since the father of the father of his father.
There are also teak table chairs, flower pots, jars, oval-mirrored wardrobes or wall hangings. Not to mention the pakliknya raising roosters complaints and birds that chirp beautifully. It shows the impression of traditional Java.
Even so, it is a classic and magnificent house that always follows the latest trends. The most advanced electronic devices are always purchased to decorate the interior of the house. Satria Piningit hates having to agree with her friend again.
Once upon a time Satria Piningit was there. However, in addition to the place is quite far from the main building and he always had to go back just to defecate, the ancient atmosphere in the third house sometimes makes him uncomfortable, horrified. This is why Satria Piningit is more comfortable to urinate at times.
Back Satria Piningit let out a long sigh considering the opinion of the villagers towards Wong Ayu's family represented by the words of his friend earlier. The point is that villagers tend to stay away from this family who live not far from their favorite place to defecate. Every Satria Piningit wants to defecate, of course, he always passes his house full of leather puppet accessories and masks on the wall and a collection of keris on a shelf. When his peers and villagers in general do not want to linger meeting face to face and relate to family members they consider shamans, the funny thing is that it provides a greater opportunity for Satria Piningit to be able to pass through Wong Ayu's house as often as possible without rivaling other boys.
Satria Piningit often saw the girl sweeping the leaves of keridn in the yard of his house. No half-hearted, after returning from school, he also spent time watching Wong Ayu finish sweeping up burning the dried leaves. While sitting on the edge of the times, while immersing his feet in the water, he still continued to pay attention. It was not uncommon for Satria Piningit to take a bath at that small time before going home and changing uniforms.
It's not without reason. Because usually, shortly after sweeping the yard, Wong Ayu will also go to kali with bermben and bring toiletries. Satria Piningit once stole the peep of his hardware basket where a bar of jambon-colored soap aka pink and pumice stone to rub the heel of his feet. At that time, usually Satria Piningit pretended to immerse her head in the water bare-chested and wearing her school shorts, but she constantly glanced at the girl.
This happened a few times. There was no mention between the two, until on Thursday, after the magrib when Satria Piningit visited him, he found Wong Ayu standing behind him. Dark black curly hair like the night the girl was completely wet. His body was wrapped in wet jarit. Water dripped from her hair onto her bare shoulders, continuously descending through the calves. In front of the girl it turns out there is Priyam who also stands up straight looking at Wong Ayu. The two looked at each other with an atmosphere that became very strange.
Satria Piningit cleared his throat, Wong Ayu surged in shock, turned around and turned towards the sound. It was fortunate that his return was not released, Satria Piningit thought.
"I'm sorry, sorry, Wong Ayu .. I don't mean to surprise you" Satria Piningit said quickly. He feels guilty.
"Where do you know my name?" he said a little stuttered due to the surprise earlier, with a thick Javanese Timuran accent. His two round eyes were still wide.