The Talc of Nyai
Alan's Death

"Mas Raka, please Alan .. help him!" Tiara clasped Raka's hand, her eyes pleading for Raka's help. "Tuesday Kliwon, the Queen must have come to pick up Alan!"

"The Queen?" Raka muttered softly remembering the case he had handled before. 

His sister, his cousin had also dealt with the Queen. Adinda was persuaded by the gentle seduction from the south to support her career in the world of modeling. Fortunately unachievable poor obtained, Adinda died because late giving the tumbal to the Queen. His face rotted overnight, he was tortured to the point of ending his life.

"Contact Alan," Raka's pinta told Tiara.

Tiara tried to contact Alan, her hands looking shaky. Santi, Raka and Rendra looked at each other waiting for news from the dimpled man. Once, twice, three times there was no reply from Alan and Tiara grew even more frightened.

"Jawab Alan, answer!" 

Raka contacts Tegar the younger brother, asking Tegar to go find Alan after Raka requests an address on Tiara. Tension seemed to envelop them, anxiety and fear struck. 

Dusk began to creep up, the time to enter the day determined by the Queen. From his throne the Queen has ordered his men to move to pick up the fall. The grim grin on her lips implied that she had found out if Tiara was about to cheat on her. The Queen knew that one day Tiara would betray her like any other follower.

"Nobody has ever escaped me!"

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Alan was still at his house when he sensed something strange happening in his house. The sound of the door being knocked not once but many times. At first he did not heed it, thinking of it as a child's fad. But over time the knock made the feathers goosebumps.

Alan did not realize the sound was coming from the presence of the softeners who filled his room. The five soft livers with half-snake bodies stood guard at the behest of the Queen. They crept and approached Alan slowly with forked tongues that occasionally licked the air that danced freely around Alan.

The sound of a snake hissing sounded in the twenty-seven year old man's ears, he tried to search but there was nothing around him. 

"Well, this is home why the hell not so good gini hawanya?"

Alan again touched his nape, his back felt heavy. It was because one of the five demons started to entangle Alan's body. Alan's phone rang continuously but he didn't hear it at all. His ears were held in abeyance as well as his eyes that were closed with illusions.

"Time to take my due, bring her here!" the Queen's voice echoed in the demons' minds.

The five looked at each other, hissing and moving their ears as if talking to each other in a certain code. One female demon that started to twist her body. He looks excited when he is right in front of the handsome face of Alan. He caressed that innocent face with his greenish lentic nails. The scales on some of his hands look beautifully shiny like thin slices of emerald.

"You're so handsome, dear your life must be pawned!" 

His branching tongue stuck out and licked Alan's cheek. Instantly Alan's consciousness slowly disappeared. The stealthy poison began to work slowly and torturously. Alan's face felt numb, his vision blurred. He fell down, feeling tightness and excess pressure all over his body.

How not, the female snake had wrapped half of Alan's body. The luster grew stronger as Alan's face grew redder. Alan's heart was about to explode, he had trouble controlling his body, his eyes bulging at the taste of something bitter on his tongue that choked his neck and made him unable to breathe.

In just a few seconds Alan floundered violently and then kept silent. Poor Alan, his love for Tiara makes him an easy target for the Queen. Nyai Kembang comes to pick up Alan's spirit which slowly detaches from his body. 

The golden green shawl Nyai Kembang carried to Alan who had now separated from his body. Alan was confused to find himself bare-chested with a keraton-style outfit. The beautiful woman in red greeted him with a charming smile.

"The queen is waiting for you young man."

Powerless to resist, Alan followed Nyai Kembang's steps into the golden carriage drawn by four snake stealth. The Queen's carriage shot rapidly through the dimensional walls of space towards the kingdom.

Harder who contacted his brother immediately went to Alan's house. A strange Eve greeted him upon entering the porch of the house. He knocked on the door but suddenly fell backwards. Something with great energy pushed him strong. Rigid only saw a flash of golden green light that shot swiftly through the door. 

Rigid was suspicious and immediately opened the unlocked door. His eyes widened when he saw Alan's body lying on the floor.

"Oh my God, mas .. mas! Mas'e why is this? Wake up, wake up!" 

Hardly remembering the light earlier, he gasped and immediately checked Alan's condition. "Innalillahi wa Inna Ilaihi Raji'un,"

Tegar also contacted Raka, she told everything to her brother. Raka bowed lethargic, he rubbed his face before looking at Tiara and Rendra. 

"Where, is Alan home?" Tiara impatiently searched for him with some questions but Raka just kept quiet and looked at Tiara pity.

"Jawab why did it!" Tiara was frustrated.

"Sorry Ra, but .. Hardcore late, Alan's dead." 

Tiara flinched, she shook her head and retreated backwards. His hands were trembling, "No, no way. This is wrong, Raka. It's a lie, isn't it?!"

Tiara falls on the floor, Alan's death completes his feast. His determination to return feels futile, whereas previously Alan and Tiara agreed to start a more serious relationship after intense communication. 

The Queen had cheated him, he acted faster than Tiara and Raka. Only regret was now left in Tiara's heart. He hugged himself in an immeasurable sadness.

"Ra, tell me what Bayu asked of you?"

Tiara did not answer, she drowned herself in tears. 

"Ra, please answer me! We can stop Bayu, Ra! We can solve your problem!" persuade Raka again.

"The powder, Tiara used the powder to beautify herself. Bayu asks for life as his filler of power." Rendra remembered Tiara's story and answered Raka's question.

"Dust? Where's powder?" 

Rendra thought for a moment, half-running Rendra towards the room. He was looking for the existence of the powder that Tiara meant. Some powder boxes he found and immediately brought in front of Raka. 

"I don't know which one but this is all I've found at Tiara's desk."

Raka stared one by one at the sow and dense powder box that Rendra was carrying, shaking her head. 

"I don't think this is it" he then approached Tiara who could already control him.

"Ra, please help me if you want to be free from Bayu where is the box? You want it to end, right?"

Tiara raised her head slowly, she turned her head to the table where several powder boxes lay. Raka helped her up, Tiara walked slowly to pick up the bag lying on the edge of her bed. Powder box with unique carving in blackish brown.

Tiara handed the box to Raka. "This is the powder that Bayu gave me." he said softly almost without energy, his eyes implying deep sadness.

Raka watched the box with a frown. "So here's your house."