METANOIA, A Wonder Place

Episode 15's

            A fine blowing wind swept across my skin, blowing off a few strands of hair. This wind brings with it a feeling of drowsiness, and the tranquility of the forest feels very comfortable to sink into the daydream.

            Maybe I fell asleep, and had a little dream, or in fact, I was made aware of the sound of friction between the leaves, behind the trees, behind the trees, I think I saw someone standing back there at a glance, or maybe it was just my imagination.

            I looked more clearly, but the shadow was out of place, the more certain I was just one

hallucinatory.

            A bird big enough to fly over me, startled me and flew past my head, so I had to duck to avoid it. The bird was perched on the rock I had been sitting on, its wings looked very large when it was flapping, its feathers were bright blue, and when it held its head up, it held its head, the gold color on the bottom of his body to the tip of the wing, which glittered in the sunlight.

            The bird flew again, this time he stopped, and perched on the bridge fence, his eyes dark brown

which was almost black, looking at me through my soul. The bird flew away, as I tried to get close to it, but never too far away, it was perched on one of the branches, as if asking me to follow it.

            So I followed her wish, until the beautiful bird flew away between the trees, and I lost track of it. When I looked around, he had led me to a field, not too big, by the river, the sandy soil mixed with the colorful river stones.

            In front of me there are some stones, which are in a circular arrangement, like former people making bonfires, maybe this place was used as a campground, I guess, but this place is too small, to accommodate one school scout group, perhaps more precisely a smaller campground group, such as the tourist work of a family, perhaps.

            The burnt-out logs piled up in the middle, looking like new, meant that there were people who had previously come here, and camped here.

            I felt like I wanted to investigate, and explore this place even longer, but it seems like the day has begun to afternoon, not felt, not felt, and the blowing wind grew colder each time, I also had no idea how long it would take me to return. It's better not to take any chances, so I decided to go home and come back tomorrow, maybe I can start exploring tomorrow morning, so I can take a longer look around.

            I went back down the road I was on, careful through the slippery stone bridge, and

the stone slabs that began to be covered with water, it seemed like this river was connected, with one of the big rivers, so the water had its ups and downs, when the day began at night. Fortunately I decided to go home now, maybe if I postpone it again, maybe these stones have been submerged, and I have to cross this wet river.

            The path that created my former path passed before, fortunately still visible, although faint, and cut off in some places, fortunately not in a place that makes me confused, but, like an intersection for example, so that I can still find my way home, I was really lucky this time, and it was only when I actually came out of the forest that I was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

            When I came out of the forest, the sunlight had changed from golden to orange, fortunately I was able to go home in time, it turned out that I had been walking for quite a while.

            “Where have you been?” Lavi asked when she saw me, who was walking towards the house.

            “Hutan” answered me briefly, he just laughed a little in response to my answer, while getting out of the car that my uncle followed.

            Looks like Lavi just came home from somewhere with uncle, at the back door instead, a blob of golden buluber jumped out, attacked me, until I fell to the ground, and that lump of fur licked my face, this thing looks really happy.

            “Uncle gave it to us.” Lavi's voice sounded faint among the golden feathers, which covered my ears, this dog was very large and tender.

            “What's the name?” Ask me after calming him down.

            “Now, you better decide” he said as he passed me.

            “Jack-Jack!” Arie shouted while charging towards us, and dropped the body on a pile of golden feathers.

            “Jack-jack?” Ask me, “that's his name” said short, while stroking the fur of the dog, which now moved his arms.

            “Since last” Arie said, without concern for Arya.

            It is difficult, if Arie has determined something, I think it is impossible to persuade him to change the decision, and even more difficult, if Arya also does not want to budge.

            I avoided being in such a situation, and I was stuck in the middle of it.

            “Then that's the name, Uncle Jack” passed us while carrying some chicken egg rack in his hand.

            This time Arya looked not too satisfied, and was forced to give up, she just left us, but

Jack-Jack followed him, into the house.

            “Where are you out of?” Arie asked me while standing up, and patted her jeans skirt.

            “Hutan” replied to me, Arie chuckled at my answer, “hopefully you survived the nagging mother” said again, while referring to my slack, , the one that filled the soil and mud into one, as well as a few leaves that stuck, it seemed like this stain increased a lot when Jack-Jack pushed me earlier.

            I just took a breath, as I followed Arie inside, hoping she wouldn't see me like this. I took a quick step, climbed the stairs, squeaked like an old piano, as much as I could ignore the sound, and entered my room as quickly as I could.

            I took off my mud-filled clothes, and changed with a new, childish map folded in my pocket, falling down as I changed my pants.

            The map was now almost destroyed, with mud stains on the folds. I put it on the table, maybe I can copy it later, and throw away the map that's almost destroyed, or maybe I can get a new map. The real one, not made by children, could be that Lavi has it.

            After dinner, I asked Lavi if she had the map, and she just shrugged, “I have one, but I'm currently using” she said.

            “Until when will you wear it?” Ask me, maybe I can have it, when he doesn't need it anymore.

            “For the time being possible, until I manage to memorize each way” replied Lavi, who infuriated me, it will take how long I do not know, obviously I can't wait that long.

            “What are you map for?” Ask again.

            “Only to look around” answered me, I can't possibly tell him my true purpose, could-can he mock me for a whole week.

            “Maybe there is one in the warehouse.” Finally Lavi told me, finally also the answer is not as thick as before.

            Right too, there could be a dozen maps in the warehouse, for some reason it didn't occur to me before. Warehouse, that means the room on the third floor, and I have to go through that creepy staircase again, if I want to get there, not to mention it's very dark on top, thanks to Lavi who was lazy to install the lights.

            “I better wait until morning” gunamku, while walking to the room, and quarrel with Arie “where are you going?” Ask me.

            “Taking Jack-Jack around” he replied, while passing me with Jack-Jack in his arms, “it felt like he was too big for you to carry.”

            “He was tired, after all Jack-Jack paduk” said without heeding the comments from me, and continued their walk, they continued, maybe Jack-Jack will be made into a pillow by Arie tonight.