The Setra Backhouse
CHAPTER 06. THE HOUSE IN QUESTION

True too, after we headed to the car, it turns out Gungde who uses a red motorcycle helmet and a yellow jacket is waiting in front of the hotel.

“Sorry mas Gungde, earlier we are still preparing the equipment that we will use”

“Just calm boss, we leave now, so you can observe and know the way there without me inter”

“Follow my motor from behind course” said Gungde who then runs his motor slowly land.

I deg deg an as well, as if I was facing a big problem, as well as Sumadi who had no talk from earlier, we just stayed in the car watching Gungde running his bike in front of us.

Quite far away is also our destination, like in the suburbs.

But during the trip we really enjoyed the scenery presented by this area, the typical houses with places of worship, anyway long distance I will not be tired if the situation is like this.

I may be told to remember the road must have forgotten but fortunately Sumadi always wrote down what path we went through, including the left and right turns, also the distance of kilometers each way we passed.

So later at the hotel Sumadi will make a simple map, including some things and important places that we might be able to go.

After an hour of traffic jam in the city of Dps, we finally arrived at a gas station located a little outside the city.

Gunde told us to park the car inside the gas station area, but before that it seemed like he had spoken to the officer and the manager of the gas station.

“Mari pak Paino and mr Sumadi, follow me…. Oh yes your car just put it here, this gas station belongs to my distant brother, so as long as you two are doing the action, just park the car here, please, but do not let the work activity of this gas station” said Gunde

“Good mas Gungde. Eh but where is the place we will go”

“Not far from here, let's just follow me” then the person we call Gungde is taking us across the street.

We crossed the road and headed across the gas station in the form of a location with several large bushy trees, there are also banyan trees that look old because the tendrils are very many and long.

The location we were going to was like a cemetery or language there called Setra, the cemetery here is different from where we came from, very different in a real sense according to our eyesight and perhaps also in an invisible way.

In addition to the presence of giant braids and banyan trees, around the cemetery there are many shrubs.. I don't know why the bush wasn't cleaned.

There were only a few gravestones made sober from wood, unlike in our place whose name the grave must have been full of gravestones lined up.

Around the middle of this vast area is also like a burning ash container, maybe it is an ash footprint from the activity of ngaben or burning corpses.

At the end there is a place like a temple.maybe it's called pura dalem.. before here I had time to read about the setra or the cemetery, and the existence of the temple dalem in each setra.

But our goal was not this cemetery, we walked beside the cemetery, the path that decreased to several dozen meters resulted in us having to be extra careful, he said, because in addition to slippery also the path is rather steep.

This cemetery area is located above the path we are passing, the right left of this road is also overgrown with bushes that are not too high, there are also several types of trees, there are also several types of trees, but not the banyan or the brackish tree.

“That, that house in front of us that you come to tonight, you do not do things that are arrogant and challenging, you, what you do is just observation for your book” said Gungde

Sumadi and I were still on the footpath beside the grave, about ten meters in front of us there was a house that looked like it was still newly built, the usual house in my opinion, does not show a haunted house or the like.

It's just that around the house that the weather is strange.The house is in a kind of valley, behind the house like a river, because from here I can hear the sound of water rattling.

While a few meters to the front left of the house there is a banyan tree that is not so big, maybe the age of the banyan tree is the same as the age of the banyan tree in the cemetery.

On the right and left are only shrubs, the house is deliberately built intended for foreign tourists who want a different atmosphere of lodging than usual.

The sunlight is filtered by the shade of the banyan tree in front of the house, while the back of the house may be a small stream that we will see how it looks.

The breeze blowing and the sound of the leaves screeching makes the atmosphere here very calm and comfortable. No one should build a house here, maybe because the atmosphere here is so comfortable.

The sound of the roar of cars and motorcycles sounded very slow, probably because of the location of this place which is located in a kind of small valley, behind the bottom of the cemetery.

I felt sleepy because the atmosphere was very calm and comfortable.

“What do you think Di?”

“Wah if you think gini yes kerasan I No hehehe, the atmosphere is calm and the wind is you know, not how tight and not how slow, just fit”

“But don't know anymore .. It's daytime No hehehe”

“Well it's Di, let's just eat first Di, we eat before we do observation for later tonight”

“Eh we eat where No, here or inside that house?”

“Yes in the house only, cook us eat on the path kayak gini, later after eating we learn this place, there is anything around the house, later you record the details in”

Our current position is not in front of the house, we are still on the path in front of the house, this path is deliberately made only to go to the house. So there's no other house besides the one here.

We walked downhill and headed home….

Finally we are in front of a house without a fence. The yard of this house is only a patch of land overgrown with weeds only.

The path that we had been through ended in the yard of a house in the form of a patch of empty land overgrown with weeds only, only the grass and weeds were not too high, but not too high, it might only be thirty centimeters in size.

This permanent house is brown, the shape of this house extends to the side, not so big anyway, it is likely that there are only two rooms and one bathroom in the house.

In the corner of the house there is a Padmasana, Padmasana which I know is a place to pray and put banten (scholarship) for Hindus.

It was empty and dusty, as if no one had used it.