The Van Til House: STRAF SABBAT
Chapiter 48

At one in the morning, the boy across from Magisna's gurney opened his eyes and looked around, then moved silently, stripping the EKG cord and hose of his infusion, then crawling down from his safe.

Magisna watched the guy with her eyes squinted.

The guy was on his tiptoes, sneaking up to Magisna's gurney.

Magisna rushed towards the man and grabbed his shoulder. But his hand went through the guy's body.

Arrrr! Magisna growled in his heart.

"Magishna!" The man hissed as he bent over the side of Magisna's body which was still rolling in his safe was unconscious, bringing his mouth closer to Magisna's ears.

Magisna tilted her head, observing the man's face closely. Do I know him? He tried to remember.

The guy had a round face and was white. His eyes are a little narrow.

Magisna. No, he said in his heart. I don't know him.

"Magishna! You still here?" The guy whispered again. "If you're still here, listen to me. I already know how to enter an unconscious body" he said.

Magisna screeched beside the man while smothering his mouth. Staring at the guy with round eyes and mouth.

Twilight!

"Sleep, Magisna!" The guy told me. "Sleep on top of your body. Clear your mind and forget everything. Do you understand?"

Magisna raced enthusiastically. "I understand," he said. But of course the guy didn't hear it.

Magisna smiled a sigh of relief and immediately climbed onto her bed, piercing her body which instantly penetrated once she touched it.

"See you on the other side of our lives!" The man patted Magisna's back gently, sighed shortly and returned to his bed.

It took quite a while before Magisna finally fell asleep and was awakened by the gentle touch of one's hand.

Magisna opened her eyes and blinked.

A pale face flabbergasted above the head.

"Mama?" Magisna sizzling raucous.

"You're sober, son?" Magisna's mother screamed happily and got out of her seat, then ran out of the room while shouting. "Doctor! Doctor!"

It worked!

Magisna heaved a sigh of relief and drew her body sitting. Check the patient's gurney across from his safe.

The safe is empty.

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The next day…

Magisna can go to school. But he has not been allowed to ride a motorcycle. So his mother drove him.

His face still looks a little pale. Her mother suggested taking a rest for a few more days. But Magisna could hardly wait to find out about Hendra. Even Alexza. He hopes his two friends will be found soon. He was also still curious about the changes to Novi, Dika and their principal. The contents of his head were filled with many puzzles that must be solved until he felt unable to bear if he had to postpone it again.

Magisna wiped the sweat off her forehead. Time has shown twelve o'clock past fifteen minutes. The thermometer is 95 degrees. His mother's AC was damaged.

"It's here, son!" His mother told him while gently patting the back of Magisna's hand.

Well--yeah, sure. It's here, Magisna thought. He snuck out of his mother's car, and stared at the school building.

SMUN 1 Cileles. Totally dilapidated.

The school building is four story. The stone, which was red and had been blackened by dust, was cracked and almost destroyed. All windows on the second floor are covered triplex. The roof is curved.

"Well, it's better to get used to this condition" Magisna told herself. You'll be here until the demolition is complete. It could be until the school is renovated. It adds in the heart.

A short-haired, short-bodied girl, looked at Magisna with her eyebrows intertwined. That girl was wearing an SMU uniform. Name listed on her uniform bet: Dini Apriyanti.

Early passed Magisna and approached a middle-aged man on a motorbike parked near his gate—ah, then climbed into the boncery. The girl's eyes were still staring at Magisna until the motorcycle her father was riding moved out of school.

Dini is the daughter of the plantation foreman who lives next to the Magisna— school near Ais' house.

Magisna stepped into the gate, crossed the grassy courtyard and reached the terrace. Open the rusty door and go inside. The main corridor was dark. Magisna could barely see. The air is damp and smells good. Magisna started coughing. He drank from a nearby drinking fountain. The water is warm and slightly colored. It doesn't taste good either.

Magisna glanced along the corridor. The place is empty too. No school children, no teachers.

Magisna walked over and found a door that read PRINCIPAL. He shook his knob. Locked up.

Then Magisna checked her classrooms. Blank. In addition to the squeaking sound of his rubber boots, the place was completely dead.

What the hell's going on? thought Magisna. Was I wrong the day? Or the wrong school?

Then a voice broke the silence, "Magishna!"

Magisna felt her skin barely coming out. He simultaneously turned and faced a white man like Agustin, but not as tall as Agustin. The guy was wearing an SMU uniform and wearing blue ray glasses like Novi and Dika have been wearing lately. The name on the bet on his uniform is KIDDO CALLAGHAN.

I don't know him Magisna said in her heart.

The guy examines Magisna from top to bottom, then back to top—to his face. "Did I tell you I like sweet black girls?"

Magisna immediately frowned and bought a lump. "It turns out Mr. Dusk," he muttered half groaned. Bad old boy, he added inwardly.

"Hei—my name is Kiddo Callaghan now," Sergah Dusk while pointing bet his name.

"So this kid goes to school here?" ask Magisna.

"As you see!" Dusk developed both his hands on his sides.

"Where is the original owner?" ask Magisna again.

Dusk just spread his shoulders. "Wandering I guess," he replied lightly.

Magisna returned. "Why are you wearing glasses?"

"Call me Kiddo!" twilight Sergeant. "People will suspect that you called me that!"

"Well-yeah, people should be suspicious of your standard language style!" magisna.

"It's in school, what's wrong with the use of raw language?" Dusk does not lose.

"So.." Magisna raised next to her eyebrows towards Dusk. "Why are you wearing glasses?"

The man let out a short sigh and lowered his glasses. He leaned closer to Magisna's face.

Magisna pulled her face away and frowned.

"See this!" Dusk pointed at his eyes.

Magisna did not understand.

"Oh, come! You must understand what I mean!" Dusk urged.

Magisna looked at the two men's eyes and looked up.

The iris of the guy's eyes was pale yellow. Almost like it was lit up in the dark.

Is that why he wears glasses?

Suddenly Magisna remembered Novi and Dika.

Are they too…

The crackling sound of the door opening jerked the Magisna.

A pair of teenagers burst inside, both wearing dark hoodie sweaters and blue ray glasses like Novi and Dika. But not them.

Magisna.

It's Hendra and Alexza!

They survived, Magisna thought both astonished and curing. They look just like Novi and Dika.

Hendra wrapped his arm around Alexza's shoulder as they walked towards Magisna.

Dusk watched the two with his eyebrows clutched, his forehead looking furrowed like trying to remember something.

Magisna tried to glare into Hendra's glasses as they approached.

The two glanced at Magisna with a flat face, then glanced at Dusk with eyes squinting, then passed through the two and acted as if they did not know Magisna.

Magisna spontaneously snatched the arm of a Hendra sweater.

But Dusk caught Magisna's shoulder and restrained her. "Don't approach them!" his hisses in Magisna's ears.