The Van Til House: STRAF SABBAT
The Chapiter 70

Impossible!

It was the first word that flashed through Magisna's mind when it found itself.

So all this time my soul was also trapped in the labyrinth?

Then who am I?

Or who is he?

Where is my real soul?

Definitely me! Magisna. Whoever he is with them is not me.

I am fully aware within myself. It can't be me.

Although I can be harmed by a phantom knife, but I know I'm still me.

I have to prove it! Magisna.

But before he realized what was happening, the souls of his friends had already fled.

No, wait! the pekikin' in heart. I just found them. They can't be lost anymore. Or I can't save them.

"Wait!" magisna shouted at her friends.

The torch in Hendra's hand shimmered, almost extinguished. They all ran away from Magisna.

Magisna tried to catch up with them. He ignored the cries of Kiddo and Agustin behind him.

"Magisna, wait!" Agustin tried to stop the girl. Then accelerate his run, trying to catch up with him.

Magisna would not stop running.

He lost control, Agustin thought. What makes it so? She's like.. Early!

They are all chasing something, Agustin said in his heart. But what are they after?

At the next intersection, Hendra and his friends turn again.

Magisna sped up his run like a man of infidelity. His chest seemed to explode, the heel of his foot felt numb. Sweat was pouring down on his body. But Magisna was not bothered by all that.

"Magishna!" Agustin yelled at him again. "Stop!"

And then Magisna stopped.

But not because of Agustin's orders.

Someone's blocking him at the bend.

Twilight!

Magisna stuttered with a paled face. His friends were already running further and further behind Dusk.

Magisna tried to ignore Dusk and charged into the alley.

But Dusk caught his waist.

Magisna flinched once again. This time he started to get scared. He's trying to keep me out of my friends! He realized.

"Stop now or you'll lose your friends forever!" Dusk warned.

Magisna blinked and looked at the waist-haired man with fear. Whatdoes thatmean? He wondered in his heart. He's threatening me?

"You're going the wrong way, son!" Dusk pushes the rough body of Magisna out the alley.

Magisna was thrown backwards and her back hit the wall.

Along with that Kiddo and Agustin managed to catch up with him.

"Giss!" Agustin squealed in surprise.

Immediately the two men rushed towards Magisna and scooped his body almost simultaneously. Agustin caught him first. Then pull him up.

"You okay?" Agustin asked worriedly.

Magisna gasped for breath while pointing towards Dusk.

The two men in front of him simultaneously looked back.

Darkened.

Agustin directed his flashlight into the alley.

There's no one.

"What did you see?" agustin asked Magisna.

Magisna kept pointing to the mouth of the alley. His breath is still stinging. His face was as pale as a corpse. His body was shaking and sweating.

Kiddo exchanged glances with Agustin. Both look confused.

"There's nothing in there!" agustin.

But Magisna saw it clearly. The ghost is now in contact. Look at them while grinning.

Magisna shook her head, her breathing increasingly hunting irregularly.

Sambekala! thought Magisna realized. The fog is sambekala!

Dusk Ghost!

So why has she been pretending to be nice to me all this time? bitter memories. What's he planning?

"Do you really want to?" Magisna shouted out. He had lost his respect for the ghost by now.

"Magishna!" Kiddo and Agustin rebuked the girl while shaking her shoulders. "Conscious!"

Magisna doesn't care. They cannot see the twilight. He didn't even care if the two boys thought he was crazy. Or think he's hallucinating, possessed, whatever.

I have to save my friends, he insisted.

"What do you want from the cave?" Magisna shouted again, this time it was almost crying.

"Shhh. shhh.." Agustin patted Magisna on the shoulder, trying to calm the girl down. Still think Magisna was sawan or merayan like when in the house of Ais. For a moment he glanced at Kiddo and exchanged glances.

Then the two men ambushed Magisna's shoulders and arms to her left, then dragged her away from the mouth of the alley.

Magisna. The guys tightened their grip.

Magisna jerked her hands from the clutches of the two, then pushed their chests away while screaming, "Lepasin!"

Kiddo and Agustin were pushed back and gasped.

Magisna turned around at once and returned to the mouth of the alley again.

The ghost smiled wryly. "Did I tell you I like sweet black girls?" ask him without expression.

Magisna boughtak to hear his words.

"Do you know why I like it?" ask the ghost again.

Magisna did not answer. I don't want to know, he thought.

"Because she's one of my beautiful collections!" Dusk answered his own question.

Beautiful collection?

Magisna coughed, choking on her own saliva.

So you mean that sweet black girl is a female panther?

"You will be my most beautiful collection, Magisna!"

Magisna gulped.

Whatdoes thatmean?

"I mean.." The ghost shifted her body to the side, "Your other self!" He added, glancing backwards.

Magisna.

Five black-haired panthers were trapped in a dead end alley behind the ghost.

Is that me and my friends? Magisna makes bitter.

How could I be there too? The other me? Whatdoes thatmean?

"That's not a cave-not maybe a cave!" Magisna sizzled while shaking her head.

"Magishna!" Kiddo and Agustin jumped from their respective places and lunged towards Magisna, then shook the girl's shoulders once more. Trying to resuscitate.

Magisna remained unmoved. His gaze remained glued to the mouth of the pitch-black alley in the vision of the two men beside him. But it was bright in Magisna's eyes. He could clearly see the ghostly body glowing in the dark. Like a three-dimensional hologram.

The five panthers behind him growled while pacing, circling in the same place. It's like there's an invisible space shutting them down at the end of that alley.

"Anyone who has been confined will remain confined," Dusk repeated his words as if reciting a spell.

"The cave doesn't understand!" sergeant Magisna.

The ghost suddenly bowed with a grim look. "Michael Isaac is right" he said raucously. "The children did not die from the attacks of beasts." The ghost raised its face again, looking at Magisna with a sad expression. "But the children are the beasts."

"Ma--you mean?" Magisna.

"Magisna, relax!" Agustin patted Magisna's cheek.

Magisna glared at him. "Susual cave!" he was impatient. "There are things you can't see and only caves can see. You want to believe anything!"

Kiddo and Agustin froze.

"But please.love the cave of time," Magisna lowered her voice. "They need answers!"

Kiddo and Agustin finally raised their hands, then retreated in order and stayed away from him. But not leaving him. Just a few meters away from Magisna, leaning their backs against the wall and watching Magisna with a helpless look. Sometimes the two exchanged looks and let out a short sigh.

Kiddo believed the girl could see things that normal humans could not. He once proved it when his soul was stuck in school. He's just worried.

What if the situation turns out to be dangerous while they can't see?