Bercyanda Story

2. Waking up from Sleep

As Sinta said, Skul the Skull of Gaul did not need to eat. Strangely, he still needs to sleep.

Because of his work as a birthday clown, now Skul and Bod already have a place to live in the form of a small rented plot. It was there that Skul and Bod slept next to each other on a thin bed.

Their modest income is not so much a problem because their expenditure is also very minimal. Only Bod ever smokes, but that's another discussion.

Every time Skul woke up from sleep, he seemed to have just dreamed of being full. If only he could sleep a little longer, he would remember who he used to be through his dreams.

But that has never happened so far. He always woke up when the memory was almost reached.

As the day wore on, the dream faded. But his longing for that memory grew even greater.

Of course, Skul wasn't always like this. He used to be an ordinary man, then died and rose again, even though only as a skull.

The difference now only makes him guess that maybe he used to die by being beheaded. Maybe he was an evil man who deserved to be beheaded. Or, there was a wicked man who beheaded him.

But it was too dark an afterthought for Skul who loved to get along and was always cheerful.

Now, he was a magic skull head that could levitate.

Skuls can only hover at a certain height. He could soar a little higher, but it was just like jumping when viewed from a human point of view. It was as if there was a body supporting that floating skull. A body slightly taller than the Bod.

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Bod is a complete skeleton, but he has no head. He also believes that Skul is not his head. When he woke up, he woke up alone. There was no Skul nearby, there was no one.

He woke up at the bottom of a dark well. Then he started to crawl up. Since his body was only bones, coming out of the well was not a difficult task. Finally he arrived at the surface and started to wander around.

"Yeah!" Aben who was sweeping the dry leaves shouted in fear. Incidentally the well is located in a complex of historical sites. Aben was one of the employees who happened to be on duty that day.

Aben ran into a nearby building. While Bod was not too dizzy with the cry of Aben. Although he had no head, strangely he could hear, also see. He just can't talk.

Bod finally found a cigarette that was still burning. It seemed like Aben had been too panicked to run. He started crouching and like an instinct, Bod's hand carrying the cigarette towards his mouth should have been. Without a head, nothing happens.

Bod continued to do so until the cigarette was extinguished because it ran out of tobacco and paper to burn.

From hiding, Aben witnessed all of that. Aben then ventured out and approached Bod.

And that was the beginning of Aben and Bod's friendship - a quiet but occasional smoking headless skeleton.

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"Oh, so." Skul finally understood what Bod explained.

Bod moved his hand again. Speak Signals.

"God is a physics scholar? Didn't know, did you?"

Bod raises thumbs up, 'agree'.

"So whose idea is this? You, Bod?"

"No, it's Aben's idea." sign language.

"Why did Aben think?" Skul asked curiously.

"Let's be nice, he said."

"Emang the Aben really, that's."

Thumbs.

"Unfortunately you've thought that if you find your head, what do you want?"

"Yet. Confused."

"Same. Scared too."

"Fearful?"

"Yes. Life is good."

"Rubber too. It seems like being a whole human being is very troublesome."

Skul nodded.

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