Animal Sacrifice For Mother
30. The True Warrior
“Inaq, wake up first. Inaq should eat. Inaq should also take medicine to get well soon.”
For the umpteenth time Rahman tried to awaken Inaq. However, Inaq was still closed. He only showed his smiling face in his sleep.
“Inaq, Inaq. Please, please..!”
Rahman's efforts to wake Inaq turned into a cry for help. The scream was repeated many times. Getting louder. He ran away leaving Inaq in the room. Again, he screamed as loud as he could to get help.
Not long after, a neighbor who was seen cleaning his car ran over. Setiawan. He asked Rahman, but Rahman answered only with a sobbing cry. Seeing that, Setiawan rushed towards Inaq's room. He was surprised, then immediately lifted Inaq's body from the mattress.
“You, lock the door. Inaq should be taken to hospital immediately.”
With a rash move, Setiawan left Rahman. Still from the simple courtyard of the house, Setiawan half shouted to his wife. He asked his wife to open the car door. For a moment, they were in the same car. The car is now speeding over a paved road to the hospital.
“Please contact your sister!”
Setiawan asks Rahman to contact Arif. How-to? While Rahman smartphone brought by Kak Arif for sale. Oh my God, why did all this have to happen? Rahman's confused. He really doesn't know what to do. He could only cry, cry, and cry.
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“After all this, I can better understand, or perhaps more be able to think of every wish Inaq though not spoken.”
Brother Arif looked over. Smilingly. Doni nods. He was so sure that brother Arif could.
“Mbeeeek.”
In the middle of the journey, the male goat that Arif bought did not stop making a sound. At first, it always brings laughter. But over time changed to present a question. What was? Why does this goat look so agitated? Did he know that he would be slaughtered soon?
“Leave it, brother.”
Doni asks Arif not to care too much. All right, brother Arif agreed. Let it.
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“How, sir. How is my mother?”
Rahman immediately approached the Doctor who had just removed half of his body from behind the door of the room where Inaq was examined. While crying, he kept trying to make sure. While Setiawan and his wife just stood up, slowly approached the Doctor.
“Im sorry, brother. Forgive us, sir, ma'am. But we've tried our best to help.”
The young doctor whose face resembled that of the singer and the film's performer looked at Rahman, Setiawan, as well as his wife.
“Inaq!”
Rahman barged into the room where Inaq was being examined. He did not care about the body of the young Doctor who was knocked at the door because of his encouragement.
“Inaq, Inaq. Wakes up. Inaq...!”
Rahman was still trying to wake Inaq up. This time there was no longer a bowl of instant noodles and a cup of warm tea on the table. There were only medical devices and a blue gas cylinder visible in the corner of the room.
Despite trying to wake Inaq up, Inaq remained closed and put a smile on his lips. The smile was certainly not engraved from Rahman's cry. It is possible that the smile is present because soon Inaq will meet Amaq, a true husband and warrior who decades ago left him, as well as their children to build a palace in Heaven there.
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