CONFINEMENT

CH 34 - WORRIES OF MR. TIMOTI

"Dead, come. Leave all your work, follow me!" mr. Governor Timoti said he saw Sariwati who was busy helping Jero Balian in a white building used as a health service center in the State of the Beach.

The two rushed to leave Jero Balian who was still busy with his cantrik-cantrik. Then Mr. Timoti and Wati headed to the strait of a pyramid-shaped building with ornaments typical of Beach Country carvings. Visible pillars or saka of the building was engraved with a motif of bun berpatra welandi add to the impression of elegance and classic.

"Sit down, there's something I need to discuss with you!" mr. Timoti took the position of a chair facing the fish pond, while Sariwati took a seat not far from his presence.

"Wati, it's been almost a year that you've been living with your uncle and helping out a lot at the health center with Jero Balian. Do you feel at home here and have no intention of returning to the Flood Country to meet kang mas Bendowo and mbak yu Warika your parents?" asked the governor, his eyes looked distant with a hint of anxiety on his face.

"Why did my uncle suddenly ask like that?"

"Didn't uncle want me here?" ask wati.

"Not so Wati, Uncle only feels concerned about your situation, even though uncle can feel how it feels to be away from our parents and the environment we love. Although your existence in this country is unknown to your parents but gradually kang mas Bendowo will know it too."

"Your presence in this country has helped my uncle and Jero Balian in the development of the Coast State health center but you know for yourself how your status and your sentence period is not over." said the man stood up, took a pinch of pellets and spread it to the fish collar.

"Your condition is now better than it was before you met uncle, the scales on your face and skin have begun to be invisible, is that not a sign that your punishment has been over? the governor is back.

Sariwati just silent to hear the words of her uncle, it was almost one time she ventured and finally settled in the Beach Country. The woman's mind was staring back at the events after the events she had experienced so far. It began with a shameful incident that was inflicted on him eight years ago where he was accused of something he had never done so that his father sentenced him and expelled him from the Flood Country.

"But it's coming home to you, Wati. Uncle wouldn't mind if you still wanted to settle in this country."

"Even my uncle knows the character of your parents, especially your father. Our extended family is more concerned with property and power than with blood ties"

"Yes uncle, I don't think I can go back home even if what happened to me and the curse has disappeared. I doubt uncle, whether my extended family will accept me back especially papi and sister Mecha." said the girl ayu.

During his stay with Mr. Timoti and his activities helped Jero Balian in serving the treatment and health of the people of the Coast State without realizing the scales on Sariwati's body disappeared as the luck of the Rain Jade he brought. Still clearly remembered the words of the father that he would be cured of the curse if many do good and regret all his mistakes.

"I'm comfortable in this country, Uncle."

"I feel the sincerity of the people around me and the hospitality of the Coast Countrymen. Unlike what I experienced in the Flood Country which was all just a fake because most of them saw me as one of the grandchildren of the late king Harsuto."

"Especially my expertise in medicine can be useful for the people of this country, Uncle." concluded Sariwati.

"I saw that there was something that uncle wanted to say and not usually uncle asked like that and looked agitated," asked Sariwati to Mr. Timoti.

"You're right! last night the uncle got word from the caraka that the uncle put in the Flood Country,"

"Habsari has returned home from the Wind Continent!" add the man.

"The newsletter I got that he's gonna overthrow your father's power!"

It felt like being struck by lightning Sariwati gasped at the news from Mr. Timoti.

"How can uncle, isn't brother the flesh of papi blood. It would be absurd to think that Brother Habsari was acting so far away" Sariwati's eyes were full of anxiety.

"I must immediately return to the Flood Country and warn papi before this happens!" peekik Sariwati was full of emotions.

"You're not stupid! Yourself knows how Habsari's character is, He is capable of acting beyond what we ever imagined. Especially power and treasure."

"Especially the news from this caraka has something to do with you and the Rain Jade that you have, Uncle doesn't want anything to happen to you."

"You better be here, out of their reach" said the governor straightforwardly.

"But uncle?"

"No buts, for this time follow the advice of uncle!" concluded mr Timoti

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*Motif Bun: carving in the form of leaves of ketela vines

*Patra welandi or ulandi: a type of carving motif originating from Europe adopts a form of vines with wide and small leaves and flowers