Manira /Damar Scouts

Episode 14

Short episode version of the novel “Senandung HOMESU under the Broken Moon Wings”

Damar Jurors

By: Elmira Arasy Rahman

Episode 14

The people also only dared to whisper behind Ratmi and Juragan Damar. They did not dare to strictly forbid or punish the two who had perverted. The influence of the Damar Spear was enormous. Known as the most rich, influential and powerful businessman in this village makes everyone close their mouths and pretend not to know with the affair of the two who have become public secrets.

More and more, the news of the dark relationship began to reach the ears of Sarifah, Mahesa's mother. Her thin and frail body sickly grew sicker hearing the issue of her husband's infidelity that increasingly could not be muted. Sarifah tried to hold on and dismissed all the rumors. But her little heart started to unsettle. He did not want to believe all that but on the other hand he was also very curious. Why is the news getting louder and louder like a storm hitting his household?

One day, Sarifah took Mahesa walking through the heavy rain in the middle of the night. Sarifah felt very uneasy. It's eleven o'clock in the evening but Juragan Damar hasn't come home yet. This isn't the first time. Some people say that Juragan Damar is often seen in and out of Ratmi's house, a widow whom he also knows as the most beautiful woman in this village. Previously, Sarifah and Ratmi were schoolmates. He did not expect that it turned out that Ratmi could do so far, daring to be a thorn in his household.

Tonight, Sarifah wants to prove it herself. She did not believe that her husband was having an affair with another woman. Sarifah tried to convince herself that all the rumors were not true. She believed in her husband. With all the displeasure in his heart, he took Mahesa to Ratmi's house.

“Ratmi...... Ratmi...” cried Sarifah while occasionally knocking on the door.

“Mahesa, do you believe in the same?” sarifah asked a moment earlier while holding her shoulders.

“Believe,” replied Mahesa who was still very innocent while nodding her head with confidence.

“Then now we prove that the father is not as people have been talking about so far,”

“Iya,” replied Mahesa small.

Sarifah surrounded Ratmi's house in the middle of the night which was wet with heavy rain. After failing to wake Ratmi, Sarifah walked to the side of the house. The innocent-faced, thin-bodied woman found a slightly open window. He slowly opened the window with thousands of fears and horrors. His mind raged unnoticed. She was so scared that her husband was really there. But on the other hand he was unwilling to back down because he had to know everything, he had to make things clear. He had to prove that all the news was not true.

After trying to strengthen the heart, finally bit by bit the window opened. A single spot of dim-colored light was implied from the room. Bring Sarifah to see someone who is lying in a white mosquito net. He saw a woman leaning in the arms of a man. Sarifah began to worry, Ratmi was a widow but that night she slept with a man. As soon as Sarifah opened her window wider, she finally really saw that the man who was hugging Ratmi was indeed the Damar Priestess.

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