Emotion Taster

Arc 4 New Stage: Chapter 40 - Morning With Elephants

"It's not strange, it's like I've never seen you accept someone's help and say thanks just now," Farrel replied in response to my cold sentence just now. Efforts to restore the mood as usual, it was even broken by Farrel who gave a serious answer.

"Heh, isn't it good? That means you don't have to bother, I don't have a lot of problems until you have to help, Farrel."

"No, you're different, Ivan. You're not no problem. But, you never tell me if there is a problem," Farrel shook his head to reject the statement. "I thought at first that you had the same communication problem. But, the nature of you who often help people, it seems that it is not a communication problem. Maybe it was from the beginning of your mental like that, people who have people pleaser."

"People pleaser ...?" repeat the term with a high tone of asking. "That's the mentality that people sacrifice their own happiness for others. He suffers, but the important thing is that no one else."

"And you think you didn't go in there?"

"No," I replied firmly. "I might seem to be helping others. But I really helped myself too. My condition is a bit complicated to explain. I help people, and I help myself. I don't help people if it's just me torturing myself."

"Ah .. Yes, you help yourself. That might be the point. I'm also your friend, and I've never seen you depend on me. That's why when you say 'thank you', it feels like a foreigner in the ear. Ahhaha ...."

"..."

Farrel's words made me pause for a moment. It reminded me of the statement from Imarine before. Being bound by so many people at once really made me rethink. Amalia, Imarine, and even Farrel began to discuss this. Though, in my eyes, I who don't trouble others is a good thing.

The conversation ended. Farrel who had taken a rested breath moved back to work. Even with the pressure, but the night time that has come half way has not changed. In the end, we also need to rest.

Goa there does not appear to act as a tunnel. The difference between a cave and a tunnel is that a tunnel has another side, whereas a cave is generally just a bottomless hole. So, going too deep can be dangerous, oxygen concentrations are thinning and certainly prone to getting trapped in ruins.

So, when we are in the cave and feel safe from the great creature, we do not explore first. The better option is to make the place an emergency retreat, considering the body is also tired due to the incident.

We both carry our bags. From the contents of the two, there was no instant equipment that could allow us to sleep in the dusty cave just like that. The illumination was only from the flashlight, and the bed cloth was also left in the previous place. So, all we can do is take out the hard textured stuff and make the bag as a pillow.

Dirty places we can hold, dust in the air we can filter by covering the mouth using clothes. The most important factor is that there is no danger from the cave dwellers there. Fortunately the cave does not keep bats or harmful insects that make a place to live. The place is empty just like the minimal forest conditions with the type of animals.

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My sweat was not dry. The greasy sticky feeling with thick clothes makes me uncomfortable in various factors. The strong equipment was not suitable for sleeping, but I had no choice but to wear the shirt.

Even so, my body can still close its eyes calmly. The tired condition is still much worse for me to put to sleep than the egoism of feeling spoiled for uncomfortable circumstances.

My eyes were open, they welcomed the morning light that shone from the sidelines of the cave door. In the world I also turned out to be able to feel general physical conditions such as drowsiness, aches, and sticky uncomfortable over sweat. The feeling and the little physical disturbance in which I wanted to bathe my body in clean water with soap.

Even so, I can't do it. The water source in the forest is not abundant like in a waterfall. So, all that can only be done by stretching the body and undressing for a fresh breeze around the entrance of the cave.

"Oh ... Ivan, are you awake?"

The sound appeared from outside the cave, Farrel which was from the beginning I woke up not visible stem of his nose.

"Yes, my line just woke up, one of the best and worst wakes of my life."

"In kayak gini condition you still have the best condition?"

"Waking up without a wave of emotions from newly awakened people is also a blessing. I won't get this at home or at camp."

"A wave of emotion, a term that sometimes comes out of your mouth" Farrel muttered. "Usually indigos can see something like an aura, but if you call it a wave of emotion. It's a little complicated, too."

"They say the aura is different from my emotional wave. But, let's be easy you can be the same. The source is still similar, both are out of the person and do not look the same as ordinary people."

Farrel seems to have also known that magic is quite complicated explained in sequence. So, both me and him, we always talked about and conveyed something about this magic little by little from a small question. Something like that is easier to catch and will not cause fatigue. After all, now we are both on a mission.

Out there Farrel is sorting out foodstuffs in the form of fruit and various types of tubers. Near the mouth of the cave the man independently burned wood and processed forest food for his food needs.

In the fire there are bulbs, he burns them to cook and tender. Then, in addition to the man was ready the fruit-lodged leaves, the second food companion tubers.

"..."

"How are you still standing, Ivan? If you want to eat, just take it."

"Huh, why did you say I was hungry?"

"Your stomach voice has been whizzing from the time you slept?"

"uh? No, that's not possible. You lied, didn't you?"

"Yes, I lied."

"..."

The kind of joke that bothers me. But, the shape is still too soft to be called annoying. Here he still did not want to bring the atmosphere into excess stress. As he kept my feelings in check, what came out of his mouth I never heard of any complaints.

"This is the ration for both. So, just take it. There's no way I'll give it to an elephant if it gets cooked first" Farrel said.

"Hnm, hmn ...? Ah, yes, okay," I answered a little hesitantly.

I also humbled myself with Farrel. The pile of wood and embers used to burn the bulbs I came. With a variety of tools such as sticks, stones, and fans, I began to eat the tubers with Farrel.

*Bug, bug, bug ....

"Hhh!?"

Shaking the ground from the footsteps of the huge creature sounded. Recalling what happened last night, I started to tense up and suddenly stood up in a standby manner. The vibration was even enough to make me shocked to drop the new bulbs half I ate.

"Calm down, Ivan," said Farrel, who casually devoured his food without moving even a little from a sitting position on the rock. "It's just an elephant."

"Face?" said my colleague asked.

"Yes, I think he's just the animal I found here right now. But, relax, he's not violent. He just went around looking for his own food. It's a little weird why there's an elephant here."

"..."

I tried to sharpen my vision following the direction of hearing, looking for the source of the vibration and the position of the elephant walking around. Then, there I found, a large elephant eating leaves in a more open area. The creature emerged from the other side of the rock hill where our cave was located, the opposite side of our direction came in the river before.

But the elephant has only one tail.

Elephants are clustered creatures, which I rarely see in documentary films where they live alone. Moreover, the place of life is not in the rain forest, but a more tenuous forest with a wider grassland so that he can move more freely.

Rainforests have unique and heavy terrain. The soil tends to be uneven and many tree roots are bothersome. The interstices between narrow plants are also very difficult for elephants to move. In fact, with his natural physical condition, the elephant could not jump, he would very easily get stuck in the rainforest like this. It is not an elephant habitat even though it is still the same name as the forest.

However, the elephant is there, present on the edge of the forest which he thinks is still safe to roam around for food.

I who had daydreamed and calmed by missing the possibility of danger was back sitting. The heartbeat that was almost driven to run back I pulled from the mind. Today's memory is driven by the one science I know.

Elephants are one of the creatures that are thought to have strong emotional ties with other creatures and those who do not. It is even equated with dogs, cats, and crows.

So, when I saw the elephant alone in an unexpected place. Perhaps, the elephant was old and waiting for his death.