
As they planned last afternoon, tonight both Tara and Alga, each of them had prepared to sneak out to taste the meatballs at the tavern down the street.
"Don't forget to wear a scarf" said Tara reminded Alga, even though they both have worn thick clothes, but winter is starting to arrive, makes the night air tends to be cooler than the previous nights.
"Gosh, I almost forgot." Algae hurriedly turned towards the closet, took the only dark brown scarf he had and directly draped it to the neck.
"Are you ready?" tanya Tara made sure.
Alga who is currently wearing a thick sweater to keep her body warm in the unfriendly weather is seen nodding steadily.
Tara glanced at the glance of the watch that was coiled around her wrist.
The hour hand clearly shows seven o'clock at night, with the needle only less in length, maybe only about one or two minutes at the most.
"Alright then we go now .." broke up Tara while stepping her feet first, towards the door of the room.
Without much protest, Alga followed the man from behind.
Almost in tandem as they walked out of the room door, a commotion could be heard clearly from the direction of the receptionist table.
"What's going on? Why are people gathering there?"
Tara shrugged her shoulders in response to Alga's question. "Come ..."
In the end the two also walked closer in a hasty step, in order to quash the curiosity of what was happening, where a small crowd of humans were seen gathering into one, as well, but we don't know what caused the crowd.
"What's wrong? What's going on?" Tara tried to ask a woman who had been there first.
"I don't know for sure what's going on, sir, but it looks like an old man has had a stroke ..."
"What's? Stroke attack ...?" Tara was slightly stunned to hear it. "Has anyone called the nearest hospital ...?"
"Already, but it seems to take at least half an hour for medical personnel to come, considering the distance of the nearest hospital even has to travel quite a long distance.." said the woman again.
"Effort not to involve yourself ..."
The whisper of Algae swept Tara's left eardrum.
As Tara glanced, the woman was seen looking at her with a sharp gaze full of warning, making Tara decide to just nod so as not to prolong the matter.
"Let's go .." take Alga and turn around.
"Hhm ..."
Like a child, in the end Tara decided to obey.
Just a step away Tara swung to leave the center of the commotion .. while a voice stopped her footwork to continue swinging.
"Let's move this sir first, pity him if he's just lying on the floor .." A man's voice rang out from behind the crowd.
Hearing the decree, Tara's face immediately changed pias. His instincts as a doctor are no longer able to be held by Tara.
"No... no! Stop ...!!"
Tara's reflexes turned around, and in an instant she had been trying to parse back the human crowd she had just about to leave behind, just for the sake of preventing the intention of some men who were about to move the body of the old man lying on the floor.
But the situation was different in Tara's eyes.
Whatever it is, right now someone's life is at stake. As a doctor, Tara refused to close her eyes, as if she had seen nothing. Although Tara had tried hard not to care, in the end she was unable to keep quiet any longer.
Tara knew her decision to interfere would make Alga angry, but Tara had no time to think about it.
"Why can't my grandfather be moved to a more decent place?! Who are you to let my grandfather lie on the floor like this?!" the hoarse screams accompanied by sobs coming from a young girl with a pair of teary eyes were hurled cynically at Tara who was suddenly transfixed.
Tara stands confused, wanting to explain herself to a doctor, causing her to worry.
"Don't listen to this guy. I beg you, help my grandfather .." The young girl turned to some of the men who were there with faces full of supplication.
"Don't! Don't touch!" Tara desperately pulled the arm of a man who was back about to bow.
"Who are you really ...?! If you don't want to help others, then stay away ...!!" the man brushed aside Tara's hand on his arm.
"Yes, right! Get away... You guys don't have a heart ...!!" an elderly woman is also seen pushing Tara's body violently.
"Pure humans ...!!"
"Non-feeling ...!!"
"Cruel ...!!"
The meaning and swear of the people who were there sounded alternately.
Not only there, Tara's sturdy body even pushed around, because of their increasingly brutal acts.
Facing the chaos Tara was increasingly powerless to defend himself. He tends to be resigned to being made moons by everyone, before finally a booming voice, echoing suddenly ...
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"STOP ...!!!!!"
The loud, firm, and loud enough cry was able to dampen the various swearings addressed to Tara alternately, who could only stand resignedly to accept all the blasphemies directed at him.
Suddenly the originally chaotic atmosphere had turned silent in an instant, then all the eyes that were there including Tara, had simultaneously been fixed to one point, one point, namely to the figure of the Algae that is now standing upright with eyes that shine sharply.
"Let him, and all of you .. please step aside. Leave enough room for her."
"But Miss, this man ..."
"He was a doctor" said Alga with a cold, flat intonation.
His straightforward sentence was even able to make everything there was stunned ...
No exception Tara ...
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