The Dark World
Night Snaps

...GRIPPING NIGHT...

...Author by: David Khanz...

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Dissolve increasingly dark. Silence shrouded in the gusts of the night wind that is getting cold. Break through the window ventilation. Wafting filled the dimly lit room of the lamp was eclipsed, clinging gracefully to the walls of the room.

Astri blinked for a bit, as soon as a subtle pat touched his open arm. The deep roar at that moment broke down, unknowingly leading the woman into a realm of contention. Dark without a wild imagination that is often present in times of emptiness.

"Bang .... " Switch the voice of Astri among the fully unified consciousness. Nanar looked at the face of Galang, her husband, in the light of a yellowish lamp.

"Abang left first, Dek," said the man still standing staring at Astri. Still gathering the rest of his consciousness.

"What time is it, Bang?" Astri got up while rubbing his eyelids. Vaporize for a while, then sit on the edge of the bed.

"Half eleven nights, Deck," replied Galang. Wearing a thick jacket suit and tight jeans, complete with a skullcap that wraps hair.

Tonight, Galang's at work shif night. That means, Astri will be left until the next morning. Sleeping alone in a secluded house, away from other settlements. Only a small house surrounded by rice fields, and a vast plain full of towering trees. The former residence of Galang's parents, when they were alive.

Astri went into the kitchen. Take a bushel filled with food to eat her husband at work.

"Bring this food, Bang," Astri said. "Maybe it's cold. I prepared it before I fell asleep."

Galang smiled. "Not what, Deck. Under any conditions, your cooking is still good. Unless it's stale."

Astri pinched her husband's arm, accompanied by a spoiled smile. "It could be, huh."

The man grimaced for a moment.

"Sick, Deck," cried Galang while rubbing his wife's former pinch.

"Lagian Abang .." Astri's whine returned spoiled.

Before leaving, Galang looked at his wife. "You're okay, aren't you, Brother's staying, Dek?"

Astri shook his head slowly.

"It's the third day we moved into this house. Yes ... even for a while, until our house is renovated." Galang raised Astri's bowed face. "There is no electricity here, no telephone network, and also far from the neighbors."

Astri shook his head again and tried to smile hard.

"It's really okay, is it?" Convincing.

"Nothing, Bang," Astri replied with a quivering voice. "Ang to go, gih."

In fact, even if there was another option, she wanted to keep her husband at home. Accompany sleeping all night, or also fill up with other more pleasant things.

""Yes, that's it. Doain Brother, yes, Deck. Tomorrow morning, you're home, all right." Galang kissed his wife's forehead, then stepped outside the house. "Lock all doors. Don't open it, if it's not your big brother, yeah."

"Yes, Bang." Astri greeted Galang and kissed him with reverence. "Pick home again, yeah, Bang."

Galang. "This is just about to go. How do you want to go back again."

"I mean, abis kelar work, Abang buruan go home. No need to stop by first" Astri asserted.

"Ready, Ms. Galang .. " replied Galang while riding a motorized vehicle parked in front of the house, then turn it on. "Ang is leaving, yes."

Astri nodded with a bitter smile. Various thoughts began to fill the head, once the husband began to creep up the path through the thick path. The sound of his old motor slowly drifted away and disappeared from the natural gusts.

Astri tightly locked the door of the house with a wooden crossbar that stretched. Withstand strong until impenetrable, unless broken. Quickly hunt the bed, cover the whole body, and hide in it.

His eyes twirled in the darkness. Installing the eardrum properly to ensure, the sounds that are faint are heard from outside. Repeatedly trying to focus and make sure, whether just an illusion or real.

"That voice .." Astri said in his heart. "Yes, the voice came again."

The woman tightly closed both earholes with her fingers, but still the voices entered tucked between the gusts of wind, aiming.

"Yes, God!" strangled Astri in his blanket. Terrified. The sounds were increasingly echoing filled the listening room. Seemingly. As if enjoying the increasingly torturous nature.

Astri tried to shut down. Hoping for sleep to immediately reach his conscious room. Let go and forget for a moment from the roar of the voices. What is obtained, precisely drowsiness never whack.

Suddenly the woman got up. Stripping the blanket with his feet. Slowly crept down the bed.

"The question, actually what creature every night comes to this place .. "Astri murmured among the exposure of the lamp light from the room, penetrating dimly into the middle of the house.

Heart rate is racing. Pumping blood flow quickly to the head, until the ripples of feathers in the neck stand up.

Slowly, the woman's hand pulled over the curtain that covered the window. Take a little peek between the open curtain gaps. Then narrowed looking for a figure that made him afraid, in the dimness of the atmosphere of the front of the house with the help of lighting a lamp out there.

Wild Astri's eyes are guerrilla to find the focal point, accompanied by more hunting breath. Hoping to find what to look for, among the echoes of creepy and shrinking voices.

"Yes, God!" back, a shriek came out from Astri's gaping mouth. The woman stared at the monstrous creature among the lights. The large roundness of his eyeballs almost came out of the pelupuk, spreading an aura of fighting power of view. Bottle-covered body with movable neck and webbed pointed legs.

"No!" Astri shuffled away. The creature gave a strong shriek melt the courage that was originally fostered by Galang's wife, then moved closer to the porch of the house. "Don't! Don't come any closer! I beg!"

It's free, the creature won't listen. Accompanied by a terrifying gaze, he continued to approach and approach the door.

GECK! GECK! GECK!

The door leaf shook violently. The doorstop as a lock is moving.

GECK! GECK! GECK!

"You're from here! Don't bother me!" astri shouted then ran hunting the bed. He again covered himself with a trembling body. "Don't bother me!"

The creature was roaring in the darkness of the night out there. Not one or two, but more and more. Surrounding the area of the house, each other is unpretentious terrorizing the guts of the occupants of the room.

Astri closed the ear hole tightly. Closing the eyelids with all his might. Hoping he would soon fall asleep and forget all the more crushing. I don't know how long. Until when. To be sure, the woman was jolted with the sound of a bang on the front door accompanied by a voice call of someone.

Astri. Pull open the blanket that covers the entire body with cold sweat that floods.

"Early?" ask Astri in his smug taste.

The door was knocked hard for the second time. "Dec, this is Brother coming home. Open the door, dong."

Astri got up. Hurrying to hunt down the front door. "Ang? That's Brother, right?"

There was a soft answer from outside, "Yes, Dek. It's Brother."

The woman opened the window curtain slightly. Peered outwards to make sure the figure was her husband's right. Worried if he was the incarnation of a monstrous creature that had terrorized since last night. It could be, right?

Astri lifted the locking wooden crossbar, then pulled the door open wide.

"Dragon!" astri exclaimed at the man's body and hugged him tightly.

"What's this, Dek?" He rubbed Astri's back. Guiding him into the house. "Why you?"

Astri wept bitterly at Galang's chest. "I'm scared, Bang. I'm scared."

"Fear why? What's going on?" Confused though.

"We moved today, too, Bang. I don't want to be here" Astri said with a hunting breath. Still in the warm embrace of her husband.

"Where to move? This is, right, our house, Deck."

"Anywhere anyway. To my parents' house or even contract for a while. I don't want to be here."

Galang released Astri's embrace. Then looked deeply into the eyes of the woman he had not long married.

"What's the matter exactly? Story, Deck. Brother is confused." Gorgeous rubbing the wife's face gently. Lovingly.

Astri looked outside the house. The front door is still wide open.

"I'm afraid, Bang," Astri said trembling.

"Fear why? What is there to fear? My home. Our house." Galang.

The woman lowered her face with the rest of the sobs still heard. "Overnight .. There are many terrible creatures coming here, Bang."

"Creature? What creature?" Galang's forehead wrinkled.

Astri's index finger suddenly shot up, then pointed in one direction outside the house. "That! It! That .... "

The girl's eyes grew. Fear re-emerged on his face that gleamed with cold sweat. Galang immediately turned his head towards the place Astri pointed at. The man saw a creature standing with a sharp look and sharp eyes aiming.

"That creature?" asked Galang, then turned to look at the wife. A moment later, his laughter broke the silence.

"Why is my brother laughing? I'm scared, Bang!" astri shouted while patting Galang's arm several times.

Stopped the laughter. The man's lips twitched, like he was holding back the tingling nerve so as not to break back.

"Are you really afraid of that thing?" asked Galang a moment later.

"Don't you think I'm kidding?" Astri was getting upset with her husband's attitude.

Galang smiled amusedly. "That's, right, rice frog, Dek. When you're afraid of frogs?"

"Where do I know it's a frog? I just saw it this time!" sergeant Astri accompanied by a pampered frown.

"Yes, already. You don't have to be afraid. That thing is harmless, really. They are often around the watery pesawahan area. Funny and his voice is very melodious," said Galang half tease the wife.

"But I'm afraid, Bang," Astri's whine is a little light now the turmoil of fear that hit the heartstrings, ever since.

"Udah, now you know, right? That thing is called a frog. Breeding by laying eggs. Frog boy named cebong. Not dangerous, but amused and disgusted to see them. Okay, Deck?" He rubbed Astri's face. The woman nodded slowly and now calmed down.

Sayup-sayup from a distance heard the sound of azan through the loudspeaker. Mutually unpretentious from one Surau to another.

"It was in the dawn of time apparently. You go fetch water first, yes, son," said Galang suddenly. Move to the shower water that is behind the house. Astri nodded his head.

The man went outside immediately. Leaving behind Astri who was still sitting in the middle room.

The woman frowned after a while. Like thinking hard.

"Bang ... " call Astri hard.

There were no answers or voices of people taking water behind the house.

"Bang!" Astri called back with a louder voice.

Still no answer. Silent as usual. In addition I see the azan at the end of the series of sentences, as well as the voices of frogs that were originally feared.

Astri looked out of the house. Still dark. There is no Galang. The motorbike did not appear to be parked in front, as usual.

"Garden Man!" call Astri the third time.

Suddenly the feathers of the woman bristled. Take an education. His chest started to rumble. Then all of a sudden, he immediately closed the door of the house and put a locking crossbar back where it came from. Cold sweat started to pour. Stand back to back with hunting breath.

His eyes caught a faint catch towards the darkness in the corner of the kitchen. It was as if someone was standing watching.

"Yes, God! He .... " Astri gaped with a paled face. "Mr .... "

Suddenly the woman's consciousness disappeared. Filled to fill the mind. Until then, he didn't know what happened next.

...EXPIRE...