OXEN

Chapter 32's

After walking far enough down the aisle, Dad came to a halt at the passageway. There's a hallway on the right and left. He was a little worried about choosing which path to take. Father tried to momentarily calm his heart and mind. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath and let it out of his mouth.

In the still state of closed eyes, "O Lord, show me the right way. It is only to you that I surrender!"

Dad kept his eyes closed, his ears focused on hearing low-frequency sounds that might help him. In silence he said Bissmillah fully surrender.

"Wussshhh"

Suddenly there was a slow wind blowing that I felt coming from the left aisle. He opened his eyes and looked to the left at the left of the hallway. Now his heart was steady to choose to enter the left aisle. He believed that the wind was a sign of guidance from God.

"Thank God for your guidance. I'll choose that path!" said Father who then walked towards the left aisle.

Dad traced the hallway with a flashlight on his head that had now dimmed its light slightly. He sped up his pace so he could quickly find someone he might know. He hoped to find Tirta in the hallway.

After a long distance, Dad finally saw a petromax light from a distance. It feels very strange to see the light of petromax lights in this supernatural realm.

"Petromax lamp light, it is impossible for the jinn to use petromax lamp! There must be a human living there!" Dad ran up to the light source.

Now I have arrived where the light came from. Apparently the light came from a fairly large area. He saw a lot of burning candles and a burning torch. In silence, it is like hearing a voice from within. Back Dad stepped closer to the source of the voice that was heard slowly by him.

At the place where he saw a woman shackled to a wooden pole, behind him was also a daughter who was shackled to the wooden pole. Their faces were still not clearly visible as they were in a face-subjecting position. There was only the sound of crying out of their mouths.

"Who are you, why are you shackled here?" ask Dad.

Hearing Father's voice, the figure of the woman who was shackled in front of Dad then raised her head. Suddenly Dad was surprised to learn that the figure of the woman who was shackled on the wooden pole was Maryam, his own wife.

"Maryam, are you okay? Who's with his braces shackled you here?" ask Mom.

"I don't know who he is, Mom! It's just that I saw the man wearing a black robe with a hood covering his face!" mamah said to Dad, his eyes reddened from crying.

For a while Dad wasn't too concerned about who the black-robed man who was shackling Mamah was. I'm more focused on finding ways to free Mamah from the shackles that bind her. Dad tried to go behind Mamah to see who the figure of the girl behind. How surprised Dad was to see that the daughter was Nana.

"Lady!" paused for a moment and spoke again, "Maryam, why didn't you tell me that the girl behind you is Nana!" peckekat Father.

"I wanted to tell you, Mom. But you've already walked to the back!" said Mamah.

Dad immediately woke Nana who fell asleep either because of weakness or indeed because of sleepiness. Dad touched Nana's chin to wake her up.

"Nana, wake up, baby! It's Dad, Son!" father said in a loud voice to wake Nana up.

Nana opened both her eyes. Apparently he fell asleep because he was very sleepy. Seeing that her father was now right in front of her eyes, Nana shouted happily as well as mixed with haru. He was moved because he was finally able to meet his parents again.

"Yeahhhhhhh! Hiks... hiks...!"

Nana's cry broke, she could no longer hold back her tears. Unfortunately because she was in a shackled state, Nana could not hug Dad with her hands. But I understood that, and I hugged Nana. The atmosphere is very strong. The two shed tears as they hugged.

"Daddy misses you, son!" say Father.

He let go of his embrace, "Dad will save you and Mamah from here!" then look at the chains that bound Mamah and Nana to the pole, "You should be able to climb all the way to the top of the pole to remove the chain from this pole!"

Mamah and Nana felt that it was very difficult to remember that the wooden pole was about three meters high and they had to climb on their backs to the pole because they were tied in a position to their backs.

"How could we possibly do that, Mom! If it's wrong, we might get hurt!" mama protested the advice of my father.

"You will alternately step on Dad's shoulders, that way it will slightly reduce the difficulty!" he then ordered Mamah and Nana.

Actually Mamah is still not sure if this method will work, but because they also do not want to linger over Mamah agreed to the advice of Father. Moreover, they were afraid that later the mysterious black-robed man came back, then the situation would be even more difficult.

"Let's get on Daddy's shoulders!" father's orders to Mamah while crouching facing and hugging the pole to be a footrest for Mamah.

"Haaap"

Mamahpun set foot alternately between the right foot and the left foot with the position of the back to the pole. Mamah's left foot is on Dad's right boat and Mamah's right foot is on Dad's left shoulder.

"You ready, Maryam? I'll stand up slowly, keep your balance!" say Father.

"I'm ready, Mom!" reply Mamah.

"Bissmilbornrohaanirrohiiim!" He read the prayer and lifted his body to stand up slowly.

Finally, Dad was almost standing up straight. But apparently Mamah failed to maintain the balance of his body. His right leg slipped and made Mamah's body slump down and hit Dad until Dad fell down.

"Srrrrrrkkkkk"

"Gubraaakk"

"Awwwww"

Nana was also hit by a chain of shackles that bound Mamah who also slumped down the pole.

"I'm sorry, Mom! I just failed to focus a bit because my heart was still pounding with fear!" Mama said after seeing Father who was hit by his body.

"www! It's okay, Mary! Fortunately your body is light, if only your body was heavy maybe my waist was sprained. Hehe!" Father mocked Mamah, while Mamah only let out a wry smile.

Then I got back up, "Let's try again! This time you should be able to focus more and control your fear huh, Maryam!" I said with a smile to Mom.

"Good, Mas! Let's try again, this time I'll focus!" mama replied while throwing a smile.

He again took a squatting position and faced the pole, then he hugged the wooden pole. Mamahpun again set his left foot on Dad's right shoulder and his right foot on Dad's left shoulder. Then slowly, Father stood up to lift Mamah up.

"Prok.prok..." The sound of rapid footsteps suddenly sounded.