Love Nathan & Vanessa

Chapter 16 (Mouth of the Cave)

Vanessa wiped away the sweat that was soaking her forehead, her breath

hangover. For a long time he had never walked on foot, let alone the path

what he just passed was so steep and uphill. Even a few times he

stop and sigh at Koswara, but the man looks indifferent and

focus on the road ahead of him.

Vanessa pursed her lips looking at Koswara who was looking at her

ridiculously.

“Your weak,” Koswara quipped.

Vanessa stares at the street she just walked through, “You

see for myself the road so clearly I'm exhausted,” Vanessa said.

“There is no thirst?” asked Vanessa while rubbing

his throat was dry.

“Ada .. at home,”

Koswara replied in a calm tone.

Vanessa sniffed, “No need to say if it's at home,”

ketus Vanessa's. Now his attention is attracted to the house that looks clearly visible

from above, his curiosity arose as Vanessa counted the roof of the house below

there, “There are only twenty-one houses,” Vanessa said.

“Iya only twenty-one, already including the house of the village chief.”

Koswara replied, the man looked at the house down there. There's a sad feeling

enveloping his heart, if it is on duty his wife will always welcome him

with longing eyes.

The view was beautiful, the sun was almost setting

in the western upuk that emits orange color. His attention turned to the hill not far from

settlement, there appear to be two cave mouths there. One looks lonely, while

the one on the right side seemed to be some people carrying something. “They

what's at the mouth of the cave?” ask Vanessa. He couldn't hold back the feeling

curious, let alone look there are two couples queuing there.

“By requesting descent,” replied Koswara.

“Descendation? I mean son,” asked Vanessa to try

ensure.

Koswara nods her head, “Iya son.”

Vanessa cringed her forehead feeling into a daze, “I

still don't understand,” Vanessa said.

“Then all the heads of the family only had a wife in

at home, they leave the wife to go on duty. Temporary task

the wife just stayed at home, they got bored and asked the village chief

to give them a child.”

curious has not been completed, “Then?”

“After that the village chief did a deity, passing by

his dream was told to come to the cave with some food

plantation. Waiting there and performing rituals every day but he always

coming home sad because you don't get an answer to a problem

befalling its citizens, the village head did not despair he teteap perform the ritual

there.”

Vanessa notices Koswara who seems silent as if

thinking, “Why?”

Koswara turned to Vanessa, then smiled at the woman

that's. “The village chief began to despair, he determined it was his last day

visit the cave. He arrived early, before sunrise.  The sky turned dark, indicating

night is coming. The body of the village chief was lethargic, in his last day he was not

get any answer after one month of performing rituals there.”

Koswara stopped the story because her legs were sore, she was sitting on top

the grass that stood just now.

Vanessa follows Koswara who sits beside her, she

still curious about the story of the village chief told Koswara.

Koswara returns to telling stories, “New one step village chief

I heard the screams of the little boy from inside the cave. The village chief looked over,

seeing a beautiful looking little boy running towards her. They hugged, they hugged,

the village chief was relieved that the little boy called him by name

father, it means that the little boy is the son bestowed upon him. Then

everyone flocked to go there performing rituals to get

a child.” Koswara ends her story she sees Vanessa looking

confusion next to him, “Why?”

“No papa, it's weird. Time to have a child perform a ritual in

cave, instead of doing that later get pregnant then give birth?”

“This is my world, clearly different from yours,” ketus Koswara.

She felt Vanessa wasn't embellishing her story.

“You also did the same ritual there and then get

Hasan, Husein and Cica?”

Koswara nodded her head in response.

Actually this Koswara world makes no sense to Vanessa,

how the mouth of the cave can give a child to the citizens here. But his attention

remember the two boys beside her, “Pity of your children grows

mature without the affection of a mother,” said Vanessa.