SARLINCE (UNilateral LOVE)

67. Salt and Spices

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*****

Siren came home happy. In addition to getting hunted animals to eat, he can also interact with outside humans.

"This time there is especially with your hunted animals? where's half of this deer?"

"The owner of the dogs gave this to me."

Pakuo who was originally composing firewood, his activities so stopped when he heard all that.

Pakuo approached Siren and held the girl's shoulder quite tightly.

"Are you out of this forest border?"

"No."

"Then how did that guy give you this?"

"They shared it, then had the pets give it to me."

Pakuo seemed to be thinking, what Siren said a little made sense to him.

"But Baba. More than that, I've also spoken to them." Connect the Siren which makes Pakuo's eyes wide open.

"Who do you mean?"

"Two young men whose ages I don't think are much different from me."

"Did they approach you into our forest?"

"No. Because it seems like they are afraid to cross the border of the forest they live in."

"Siren listen. Whatever happens, even if people from the other side of the forest want to take you out of the forest, you never want to. You hear that?"

"Yes." Yeah." Siren looked into Pakuo's eyes, the girl knew Pakuo was worrying about her at the moment.

"What are you talking about with that kid?"

"Not much. He just asked me about my situation. He also asked me what I needed."

"What did you tell him?"

"I told you I needed salt and spices."

Pakuo chuckled at Siren's words.

"You're so curious about the shape of the salt, aren't you?"

"Little."

"Then how did he give it to you?"

"Tomorrow he will wait for me at the border. I don't know how he gave it. Maybe the dogs can still be used."

"Sirens. Don't get too familiar with them. I'm afraid they're a bad influence on you, and they're taking you out of this forest."

"Yes." Yeah."

*****

Bend day...

Dean and Aru wait first at their forest border.

"Deans. Are you sure that girl will come? we've been waiting here too long. My stomach even feels bloated from eating too many wild apples."

"Wait a minute. I'm sure Siren will come."

"Don't he wait for the game animals again? so he's waiting inside, not on the border."

Dean seemed to be thinking hard, what Aru said became the fruit of his mind. But while he was thinking, suddenly the figure they were waiting for appeared and stood right opposite to them.

"I told you, he'd definitely come" Dean said, framing a smile.

"Do you not see, the girl's face is very flat. Does he not understand how to return someone's smile?"

"I love that kind of face."

"Do you like that girl?"

Dean did not answer Aru's question, but instead shouted at Siren.

"I've brought you salt and spices. You can plant it to grow more."

"Yes." Yeah."

"Need." The dog who felt his name was approaching Dean by wagging his tail."

Dean tied up a variety of spices and salt that were placed in bamboo saucers. Then Dean made it perch on the dog's neck.

"Needle. Give this to the girl."

Alu walked slowly, until it arrived at the figure of Siren who stood sculpting. Siren rubbed the top of Alu's head.

"Thank you smart dog. You can go back to your master."

Siren ordered Alu to return after he finished taking the items from Alu's neck.

"Thank you" Siren said.

"What do you need again?" ask Dean.

"Dean what are you saying? isn't your help enough?" ask the worried Aru.

"If you were him, would you live life so easily? while you're just living in the woods alone with your father."

Aru speechless. It's not that he doesn't like helping others. But Aru is afraid, Dean will cross the line.

"I need something to make the wood pointy. Do you have it?"

"There was. In my place there are already people who can make something strange into a sharp object. And that's what we use to cut our quarry and also to cut down small trees."

"I need that."

"Other than you need?"

Siren fell silent again. His eyes were fixed on Dean's three pets which looked like they were listening to their conversation.

"I want an animal like that." Point Siren.

"Dogs?" ask Dean.

"Yes." Yeah."

"I'll ask the others. Maybe they have a puppy that you can take care of from childhood."

"Yes." Yeah."

The siren then turned around after saying the shortest word of their conversation.

"Wait!"

Siren turned back body.

"Is uncle okay?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"Tell him, my father Babilo misses him a lot."

"Yes." Yeah."

"Sirens. Come back here tomorrow, I'll give you the things you want."

"Yes." Yeah."

Siren turned back and lost behind the bush.

"I wonder why you are so enthusiastic about petrifying that cold girl. He looks more like a stone sculpture, than a man."

"Maybe because he never got along with other maanuses. There he lived only with his father and nature raised him.

"Are you not afraid?"

"Why should you be afraid?"

"He was the son of the goddess of darkness, the epitaph of evil science,"

"But his father was a mixed man. And I see the girl is not as scary as you say."

"Let's go home. Dad must be worried about us. Moreover, we don't bring any game animals at all."

Aru and Dean decided to go home. When Dean came home to find a hunt for a white rabbit. Dean decided he didn't want to eat the rabbit. He wanted to give it to Siren as the girl's friend.

While the curious Siren opened the contents of the tube which was quite a bit long. Sirens could see that it looked like a stone but was white. The salt was almost like his thumb. Siren licked the thing a little and felt the salty in his tongue.

"This is really dried sea water" said Siren, who then closed the bamboo tube again.

"Will you get a bird?" ask Siren after he gets home.

"Yes. These birds are lured by tree sap."

"What are you carrying?"

"It's salt and spices. The young man said I could make it a lot."

"That spice must be planted."

"Pig. The young man said his father misses you so much."

Pakuo stopped the movement of his hands while he was busy pulling the feathers of birds.

"His father?"

"Yes. He said Babilo."

"He's a son of Babilo?"

Pakuo surprised. But a moment later he framed a smile at the corner of his lips.

"Dean and Aru must have been big."

"Do you know that name?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"The young man did say it was their name. Baba, can't we just join them?"

"can't. Our shields and they're different."

"But when are we here?"

"Until we die."

Sirens speechless. How could he possibly just wait for fate until their lives were snatched away by a creature that he had no idea who had created it.

"Sirens. Baba understands what you think and feel. But believe me, the magic is there. If anything, Baba would have exchanged your freedom for Baba's own life."

"No baba don't say that. What does freedom mean when I can't see baba anymore."

"I don't want freedom. I just want to live with Baba forever."

Pakuo rubbed the top of the girl's head. They then burned the birds they had cleaned and were given a small amount of salt. Siren admitted that the bird tasted better after being given what he called the white stone.

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