TIKZ [Moving To The Golden Age]
008 - BLACK STONE FULL COLOR

"This is the last village before we walk," Winarti said, getting off the train. His eyes lurk in search of the secret army that Idaline has brought.

"You know the biggest drug place here, right?" sure the girl who replaced her kemben and her pull with an ordinary cloth. He left unimportant things on the train. Garong provides a variety of luxury clothes and accessories.

"I can only give you an idea of what information I know. The place of medicine here looks like an ordinary house, surrounded by two tough trees, facing west," Winarti recalled.

"Tough?" Idaline raised her eyebrows. "It looks like that," his finger pointed at the house that was squeezed by teak trees. "In a moment," held the girl whose hair was curled up as she ran into the drugstore.

"Welcome," greet the waiter of the store berselonjor in amben.

"Five kilos," Idaline put the paper on the table.

Without asking the waiter to wrap the medicine, Idaline put the bag on the table. Coin after coin fell out of the bag, the waiter counted meticulously.

"thank you. Please come next time." he said insert the coin, his guest immediately leave as soon as the value fits.

"You are the first princess noble I know of to only carry two pairs of clothes for a long journey" Winarti chirped to Idaline who was stuffing the parcels into a bag.

Although Winarti does not work as a prostitute, she always serves female guests who mostly come to hit her struggling husband. The women carried at least one crate of clothes, yet the servants lined up long as well as the fierce guards like to war.

Originally Lege dukuh was a place to recruit mercenary soldiers. As time went on, there was an initiative of opening a fatigue relief for the soldiers. The result all became.

"Heavy clothes just add weight.," explained Idaline carrying a bag on her shoulder. "Candra wants to buy something?" the bargain is a little grimacing, 5 kg is not light.

The lowered candra tied the bag tightly around the waist, upholding the body facing Idaline. "No, brother." he refused.

"alright. The coachman guards the train here. We'll be back in ten days. If it's more than that, go home."

"But miss, I have to take care of you," the coachman denied recalling Garong's message.

"Mr here only. Report to uncle if I haven't returned. Remember, it is your job to report. So we're depending on the father,"

"If the lady talks like that, I will do as the lady commands," the coachman resigned. Garong is a good guy but very strict especially if there is negligence. "finished already. After this I have to find work" he complained, watching the children enter the forest.

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"Candra, you help Winarti. My legs have improved" whispered Idaline on Candra's back. His little legs cramp when climbing a few meters then the boy holds him up. Behind them Winarti gasped for breath after successfully climbing the abyss.

"You know for yourself my condition,"

Idaline is silent cannot argue. It could be that Candra's hand opens and makes Winarti a grain of sand. He glanced at the angry-sounding Candra.

"We're resting here," break up Idaline.

"It's okay, miss. Soon there was a cave," Winarti held his breath in a sting, taking it off when it was not seen.

"Your spirit is huge. Candra put me down, "Idaline has a fight to get off.

"No. Your leg energy is still weak, brother. Wait for it to heal completely," Candra refused to tighten her hand. Keep going no matter the nagging of his new friend.

"Later you'll be sapped, instead" Idaline's lips tried to upset Candra.

"I'm not as weak as big brother" Candra argued.

Idaline's forehead twitched, looking like a muscle tensed because of her emotions. "You're starting to look like my sister" she recalled the sister who colored her day. "Do you really think I'm weak? I'm bigger and older tauuu. Well my energy is less but later I will be stronger than you" he chanted along the way.

Candra observed the long road that had been passed, she knew ordinary people would be very tired through the steep and slippery road after the rain last night, thick fog filled the pine forest where the beach stands. He was grateful to start learning magic despite being self-taught and still a lot of reproach. At least the energy in his body was abundant and could direct the power to the feet to climb.

The sound of water rushing down made Idaline look up. "Yeah! Oh my goodness it's finally a waterfall!!" it was a pleasure to breathe the smell of wet soil. For years he planned to go enjoy the waterfall but it was always canceled.

"The cave is on top," Winarti pointed to the right side of the waterfall. His breathing was getting stifled, he thought the trip only took a while, it turned out to take quite a long time, half an hour. "I'm sorry I'm a burden" she whispered inwardly. Their path was slow as it waited for him.

"Awhile brother. Still have to climb," said Candra pulling Idaline's hand off her neck.

The girl snatched away the wiggling of Atem's mountain sandals, she did not expend any energy during the trip.

"I'm going to go find a quarry" said Candra, lowering Idaline.

"No. I'll be the one looking for it. You rest here, "the girl's heart is really bad just hitchhiking.

"We're looking together" said Candra, helping Idaline drop her bag.

"You take care of Winarti, I'm looking for food" Idaline replied.

"It's safe here, miss. I'm okay."

Idaline looked at the woman who was sitting exhausted, Winarti nodded reassuringly to Idaline. They both went with knives bought on the street.

Arriving at the bottom, Idaline cut a piece of bamboo, split the ends into four pieces, sharpened them and tied them with vines.

"Sister, aren't you shameless?" Candra closed her eyes with a palm, the girl in front of her opened the end of her array.

He advised Tuti and Aji on the night they swam together, that he should not see the body wrapped or he should be responsible, nor should he carelessly break open in the outside world. There will be many consequences if you show the closed part.

Idaline was astonished, the little witch became shy when they swam until night came. "I want to take a shower. It's been a few days that we haven't had a shower" he said going into the river with a kemben and elastic shorts a gift from Atem. "You go find fruit. I'm looking for fish here,"

"Faster done together," kekeh Candra did not want to part.

"He's here, man,"

Candra raises her barricade into the river against Idaline. The girl could not believe her vision, in Candra's hand was a spear just like hers.

Ignoring his thoughts, Idaline focused on finding fish.

"Silver brat rubs his back," flattered Candra's eyes. Idaline forcibly opened her array bathing a body full of dirt and dust.

"I have a cousin sister who always follows me and we end up doing a lot together" Idaline recalls herself as Udelia. In her mother's family she was the only daughter among the cousins. All the older cousins and cousins treated her like a little sister who needed strict protection, her two younger siblings behaved like an older brother. Only his cousin's sister he could play with, escaping everyone's strict guard.

"When can I come back?" mind struggling. The desire to return is very strong but besit a small feeling comfortable living in a place where the air is clean as well as the people.

"Why didn't you take her to the party yesterday?" telisik Candra's. He did not leave, but his eyes and ears departed. All the palace activities he knew.

Idaline smiled bitterly behind Candra. "He died as a child" that was when they swam in the river. The night before their aunt saw a white crocodile rise to the edge. But no one believed, everyone kept swimming.

Then his cousin's sister was dragged by the current, in fact he saw the little man pulled by a crocodile. His feet had stepped on the back of a crocodile, Idaline thought only a pile of rocks.

Candra was silent not continuing the conversation. They finished the shower and returned. Winarti has prepared fire and fresh banana leaves as well as dried leaves for bedding.

"Why do you guys look weird?" Winarti clenched his mouth, he was comfortable with Idaline so he momentarily forgot about Candra's whereabouts.

"We've had a bath so sleepy, Winarti want to take a shower?" elak Idaline diverted the conversation.

"I wipe with water only,"

"It's no water, no need to go down." Candra stuck out her hand giving the plain jug a red color.

"Since when have you brought a pitcher?" wonder Idaline didn't see that thing all the way. "Maybe in the bag, right?" Idaline glanced at the small bag at Candra's waist.

"Here," Candra shifted her bag pointing at the stone at the waist. "The Great Father has made a new breakthrough in the form of storage stones,"

"Because that makes him a recluse you should do meditation to use it" the Idaline coral.

"You've been wearing clothes too long,"

"I'm not used to it yet" Idaline laughed awkwardly. "The stone was amazing," instead of wanting to continue the conversation.

"Do you see?" Candra took off the rope hanging from the stone, her left hand took Idaline's right hand, she gave the black stone full of colored light inside it.

"How can a stone as small as this store a jug?" Idaline flanked the stone with her index finger and thumb, one eye closed researching the contents of the stone. "wait. Isn't this Kalimaya? Kalimaya. Kalimaya..Maja Kali. Times in Maja? Uh. That's not the concept. It's emang woi. But not just this one. But Maja. Yes but not this one," his mind struggled. Often two ideas appear in his brain that contradict each other and bicker.

Candra looked at Winarti, the girl who was in awe of the rock that Idaline was holding shivering felt her cold gaze.

"I'll take a shower first" said Winarti, feeling like he would die if he stayed.

"Ah yes we forgot you," Idaline's thrower came out of her mind. "Here I help you carry the pitcher," an adult sash pot without a muzzle looks very heavy in his eyes.

"no need. Segini very lightly," Winarti carrying a pitcher with one hand.

"This stone belongs only to the upper class and some to the middle nobles, the lower nobles also have but most are only the head of his family, and not all of them," explained Candra. Idaline who watched Winarti go into the stomach turned to look at him.

"What a precious thing. Here I return," Idaline stuck out her hand carefully.

"I give it to you" Candra's intention as the first gift.

"I can't use magic" Idaline held Candra's hand.

"You don't need magic to take or insert objects, just close your eyes and think about what you want to remove. While there were only a few objects," explained Candra holding the back of Idaline's hand.

"Some things?"

"Yes in the storage, I put a little. The way it works is that we put magic marks in the warehouse to store or remove objects instantly. No matter how far, we will easily pick it up as long as our soul energy is still in that place. It is usually in a tight and complicated basement. Therefore only high-level nobles where all the nuclear families and almost all the members of the branch families have this stone," Candra put the stone on the palm of Idaline's hand.

"I really don't think it's appropriate to use it" Idaline thinks it must be useful once in the modern world to help school children who carry excess books, which are larger than their bodies.

"All the beautiful things are appropriate for brother," Candra scratches the thumb of her own right hand then her left hand holds the back of Idaline's head. The girl suddenly closed her eyes inhaling a fishy smell from her forehead.

"Here you go" whispered Candra shortly after.

"Have you?" Idaline felt nothing, she held her forehead and there was no trace of anything.

"Yes, already. Or does your sister want anything else?"

Idaline frowned, the boy who was a few inches shorter than her suddenly became tall and further away, his eyes were suddenly heavy and his gaze darkened.

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"Sir, I'm going out looking for food,"

"No. Brother will be worried if you disappear. Find firewood and fruit around here. I'm the one looking for the food," Candra picked up the equipment stepping out of the cave.

"Good, sir." Winarti looked at Candra's back. The young master gave him grilled fish without saying, as well as fresh water for drinking and bathing, changing the value in the heart. Soon he went to find the best fruit.

The fireplace that started to go out was the first Idaline saw when it opened its eyes. "All to where?" his murmur felt his body was much lighter than yesterday.

"I have prepared warm water. Please miss," Winarti gave me a glass.

"Thank you" said Idaline, drinking water.

"I'm back,"

The two girls rushed out hearing Candra's voice, on her back was a quarry.

"Oh you can hunt deer?" idaline's shock is diminishing. Everything can happen.

"I can also hunt crocodiles, brother." said Candra with a flat face.

"Then make a crocodile leather bag," Idaline grinned, her business thoughts popping up instantly.

"Me alone," interrupted Winarti taking the hunt. His body staggered forward not strongly supporting the body of a deer.

Candra held Winarti's shoulder waiting for her to stand up stably. "We cut," he held the other side carrying to the corner and skinned it together.

"Winmean how about you rest here? It is very dangerous if you return to the village," suggested Idaline squatting peppers in front of the cave.

"All right, miss."

"So why pick the dangerous fruit? Brother's hands will be hot and stomach will hurt if eaten," Candra had slashed all those 'poison' trees, it turned out that she passed through one tree that jutted into the ravine.

"You take care of the meat, I'll do something," Idaline came down happily picking a variety of herbs that grew like wild plants.

"Oh my country's richness," he looked sadly upon the luxuriant fruitful plants. The land will not be freely enjoyed, which bears the full need of the kitchen.

"And it grew above our land, but many bound its waist." muttered Idaline, cleaning the rock by the pool.

He excitedly carried the smooth sambal on a flat stone. The meat is also cooked. Winarti cut small neat meat into each plate.

"Cocolkan the meat here. Try a little first to know our spicy dose,"

"Gee. Just added one menu but it feels very different," praise Winarti added sambal.

"It would be better if there was salt" commented Idaline chewing the food.

"It's been very fancy, brother. For the cuisine in the cave in the forest like this,"

"Candra, I'll make chili sauce with complete spices," so you know the difference. Keep Idaline in your heart.

"Wait for the sambalnya kak," challenge Candra. He became curious sambal made by Idaline who was full of confidence he would agree.

Idaline nodded then they continued eating quietly.

"We're leaving now, take care of yourself."

"You're also careful, miss, sir,"

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© Al-Fa4 | 18 June 2021