SET DUSK

Part 4's

After their bodies were gathered into the pedati, shortly afterwards the voice of the azan zuhr reverberated. They were instructed to rest and perform the prayer of the Zuhr.

"Ida. ..." looks like Ros's half-running near Ida.

"Ah yes, Ros," replied Ida with a fluffy smile.

Somehow he felt a sense of relief when he saw his new friend, Ros, coming. As there was Mai there, the similarity of character between Ros and Mai that he felt made him feel familiar with his new friend.

"Let's go to Surau, the other volunteers have gathered there a lot, I'm looking for you from just met," continued Ros.

"Yes, I was focused in the Ros trench area, there were many bodies there, too" Ida said.

"Yes, of course, because when there was an attack, the people were bound for the trenches. But who would have thought the Dutch were really blind, yes. I feel sorry, many bodies in the condition of hugging their children. Someone hugged the baby and the baby is still alive. Oh sad me, Da," sobbed Ros while wiping her eyes.

"Where was the baby taken?"

"Let's see, I don't pay any more attention either. I was just focusing on lifting his body up to the pedicab."

"Where is the body going to be taken? You know?" Ida glanced at the last pedati carrying the corpse.

"I don't really know Da, I know that the body will be buried not far from here."

Ida did not ask anymore, her eyes were busy watching the TNI and the community clean up the traces of blood spills scattered.

Arriving in Surau, they immediately cleaned their bodies, changed their clothes and performed the prayer with the volunteers who had first finished cleaning their bodies.

"Assalamualaikum. ..." a middle-aged man stood in the pulpit of surau. The man, who is about forty years old, gave greetings to the volunteers.

"Waalaikum salam Anggu," the volunteers replied to the friendly-looking man's greeting.

"Include me Munir, I am assigned here to coordinate the Student Army and PMI officers. I am grateful that you young people will come down to contribute to our Nagari...."

Ida tried to resist sleepiness listening to Angku Munir's speech. He glanced at Ros, the girl listened carefully to Angku Munir's welcome. His chin was propped up on his knees, looking like the girl was trying to resist sleepiness. As his eyes swept across the line of men at the front, his eyes flashed with Rashid's eyes, the young man in military attire who had helped him lift the corpse from inside the trench. The man smiled at him, but he shifted his sight without returning the young man's smile.

"Mr Rashid seems to be paying attention to you huh, Da," seduced Ros with a fluffy smile.

"Ah what are you Ros," replied Ida with a grumbling.

"What's wrong Da, in this condition we need also a person who protects," seduced Ros while nudging Ida's shoulder with her shirt. A seductive smile rattled from her tiny lips.

"Ah, we've been told to eat," cut Ida to divert the conversation.

"It's smart of you to switch the conversation. But my stomach was protesting. Let's go eat. While still able to eat do not waste," said Ros while standing.

As in the previous surau, the kitchen where cooking food for volunteers is made from tents. This time the tent was wider. There were no individual dinner plates as before, their meal this time served in a large enamel that was enough for six people to eat. The food served on the lookup was just rice cooked along with corn with cassava leaf vegetables only.

"I'm sorry this is all we have, at least there is still food for us to eat yes," said a kitchen attendant mother when the volunteers had sat around the slap containing food.

"Mom, I've brought rendang. But making this much may not be enough" said Ros, as the kitchen attendant's mother passed by.

"Ah yes, save it first. I'll talk to Ruslan. Someone also said that he brought rendang. Turns out your family is ready, yes" kekeh the mother.

"You guys from Bukittinggi?"

"Yes, Mom."

"What are the conditions in Bukittinggi? If here from yesterday there is no access to Padang. This you guys also just got through Indarung this morning huh?" my mother looked curious.

"Alhamdulillah Bukittinggi condition is still safe, ma'am. But indeed the guard of every border post is getting tightened. Guava Water guard is plated." Ros told me well.

"Then, what time are you from Bukittinggi? Safe passage?" this time the kitchen attendant's mother began to sit near them.

"We, after Isya began to walk, our initial plan will pass through Solok. But Mr. Zain got a report that our soldiers had taken over all the guard posts, so we were immediately taken to Lubuk Kilang. After the dawn prayer we just left here."

"Alhamdulillah yes, you arrived safely. Two days ago a truck filled with medicine and some foodstuffs was shot by the Dutch on Salayo Street. The truck rolled into the ravine. So now we only provide the remnants of the store of staple materials." The look on the face of the kitchen officer's mother turned sad.

"No problem Ma'am, there's this too Alhamdulillah, too" comforted Ros while stroking the Mother's arm.

"Ah yes, you are hungry even I have a conversation." the mother got up from her seat.

"Haha it's okay ma'am, thank you for providing this food."

"Yes ... Spend it, there's no leftovers." The mother's smile expands and leaves the slap where Ros and Ida sit.

"Oh yeah, we haven't met. I'm Ros, you guys? " Ros spread his gaze to the four other girls sitting in front of the same look as them.

"I'm Zubaedar" said the white girl sitting next to Ros.

"I'm Siti." the girl next to Zubaedar greeted the other girls.

"Maryam." greet the next girl with a fluffy smile.

"Laila." the girl next to Maryam went to greet the others.

"Ida," said Ida to the others.

"Well, come on. Let's eat. It's been a storm this middle village, it's been protesting him," licked Maryam.

Without saying much more, they also eat the dishes provided in tampah.

After eating, they helped the kitchen staff to improve.

"If we can also remove the tent, there are no signs of any activity in this surau. Our condition is not safe." Ruslan ordered.

They rushed to do as Ruslan's body ordered. PMI officers and the Army at that time only fifteen people, six PMI officers, five soldiers, the rest kitchen officers. While some of the Army and PMI officers have left for the city of Padang. As their final cookware tidied up, a drone buzzed over.

"Run in the manau, no one is seen in the yard," cried Ruslan.

Without waiting for the next cue, those who were tidying up the equipment ran as hard as they could into the surau.