Shadow of a Child
Gaffes
“Yeah, really embarrassing”
The bodies of the two children rested behind the spruce tree, its branches and leaves covering the sunlight from them, who were tired and restless after the math class that had haunted their minds, their minds were tangled after playing with a matter they had never encountered before, as well as their hands could no longer hold books or hold onto falling leaves, sighing, and breathing, they started to open their mouths, “we don't know about it and even how to do it” lamented, “should, we ask or maybe hide behind Sky” he continued, Marina just sat down while resting her mind, a cool breeze blowing from their east, blowing leaves and falling on their clothes, until before long, a white wolf stood beside them who were asleep.
“Hai, you guys must be new kids right?”
Their eyes opened when one question was thrown into their minds, when it opened, a little wolf looked at them and was full of joy, his eyes sparkled when he saw those who had woken up from his sleep, Marina who was initially half conscious immediately sat down as the beast sat beside him, “What?!” panicking, her tail swayed violently, filled with happiness, “You must be Marina, right?” he asked, He jumped enthusiastically, “Iya, I'm Marina and the sleeping man, Jake,” he said, “we live one house near this forest” he continued, He sat sweetly while looking at her sparklingly, “Who are you??” he asked curiously, “I, Willow, I am a student at this school” he said excitedly, Jake suddenly woke up from his sleep, his eyes showing faint\- a soft ash that was standing in front of his friend, rubbing his eyes He asked half-consciously.
“Marina, what is that in front of you??”
“Willow, a wolf cub”
“wolf, wait?!”
His eyes immediately widened, instantly seeing the ash figure, “Wolf!!” surprised, “Marina, be careful\-care, maybe he will eat you, even though He is still small does not mean He is tame, Marina, stay away from him!!” panicking as he takes a cane from the branch of the tree he sits on to rest, Jake tries to drive it away, but Willow feels that he wants to invite her to play, so his tail is swaying and prepares to chase after her, He howled loudly and his happy tone came out of his mouth.
“you want to invite me to play???
I want to catch him!!
Come on, throw it, I am the fastest runner of this forest!!”
His passion appeared, Jake who tried to drive him away began to wonder, He frowned, then whispered to him.
‘Marina, why is she happy, when I hate her??”
“So please, I imagine that this beast is cute and kind,
and it turns out he wants to play with you, Jake”
“play, what do you mean?”
“Isn't the wolf a beast, Mar??”
He smiled silently, while Willow rolled on the grass while waiting for them, “Come on, why have you guys been so long.
“Come, just throw it, pity he has long been waiting for you..”
“Mar, but will he eat you??”
“He is a wolf, but He is a good wolf,”
if you think Willow is a wolf and likes to eat humans,
would you have thought that Sky who is a Siberian dog also looks like wolf”
Hearing his words, He just fell silent and tried to understand the words of his best friend, “really what you said, Willow is a wolf child and he is a good wolf, you have, we play with him”
Jake calls Willow, as he gets up and runs, “Willow, here's your stick, catch!” He threw it so far away that quickly, his feet moved after the stick, Jake was amazed at the speed he ran, his eyes He tried to shade with his hands, his eyes sparkled “astaga, he was so fast! maybe if we race run, we will lose!” amazed, Marina just smiled with him, “try you guys race..” murmured.
While they were playing in the forest, Sky and Mr. Bear were talking to the teacher, they were sitting on the student bench, He was staring at them while drinking a glass of warm tea, He fixed his round glasses, he was, “Marina Herlock and Jake Forger are human\-children who have never been to school at all, and this is their first time to go to school”, they nod their heads, He reads their learning results, he reads, then show them, the initially calm face immediately began to murky when they saw their value, “this can be proven from the value of the exercise I gave earlier, they are one\the only student who got this unusual lawhil,” he said, Mr. Bear got off the dog's head and walked over the teacher's desk, “Do you know, sir, that in fact they get different social treatment, a good school is only for children\-children who come from noble families, while those who are not part of the nobility can not feel education, he said, they only study at home, or help their parents, unfortunately, if there is a special school for them, it is not good or suitable for him” Mr. Bear explained the reason in length, because, He just nodded, “Alright, they are not only supported from this educational process, but the support of the parents themselves” said the lion, they stared at each other with questions and worries written on their faces.
“Jake does have parents and they are very supportive of the two children, including Marina did not come from the same womb, but Marina, both of her parents died a few days ago, he was adopted by the man and lived with him. From then on, he often imagined that his parents were beside him, his longing for them was very close, even he did not consider that the man who adopted him was part of his family, just because of different social strata, we worry if He continues to feel that he is alone.”
………
Jason is in the meeting room, with his colleagues, they discuss the case they are solving, “the killer is very smart, He can stay away from our path” complained his colleague, “really, he said, wolves in this blanket is indeed smart to kill people, on average\ those from the lower class who fall victim”, they check various files, “beginning from the first case, Catherine Lawson, and others, found dead on the edge of the harbor, at that time also her husband, Albus was killed in the sea”. The paper\-paper was scattered on the round table, when the room was filled with various pressures instantly silent as the scream of a woman rang out from the window, they immediately ran and saw a child screaming as he was pulled by a man in a black hood, they immediately picked up the shotgun and chased after him.
“Please me!!”
“There are bad guys who want to take me!!”
Instantly they shouted and fired a bullet at him, unfortunately the figure fled in his car and left the little boy he threw in the middle of the road, his condition was full of injuries\- the injuries that were around his body, his legs could not stand due to the violent impact on the streets, He roared in pain so much that the people around him immediately approached him, Jason approached him and asked people\people to take them to the hospital.
“Son, are you okay??”
He looked at the policeman with puffy eyes, his body shuddered with fear, but what made the residents and police on duty was the stench that came from where they stood, questions arise from them,
“what's this foul smell?”
“Junk??”
“Not, it's like the smell of blood..”.
Jason, who was holding the injured child, placed it in the car and asked the owner to take it with him immediately, before the car departed, the boy pulled his collar and whispered towards his ear.
“Master, My mother was murdered…..
Please bury him beside my father
and kill the culprit…
my grudge against him can't be held back..”.
The car was gone, Jason ran towards the crowd, talking while covering their noses, a look of fear surfaced among the surrounding citizens, they shrouded a woman dressed in sky blue with a white apron, now his condition makes the surroundings, paralyzed can not act anymore, his mouth secretes red liquid, his eyes are wide open, not only that, the woman's body is filled with wounds\- his injuries and white apron were covered with blood, those around him were terrified, “What happened???” tanyanya, these “women were killed by the cloaked figure before He was about to kidnap his son,” they replied, the police immediately examined the woman, and took her in a truck to be investigated, “almost every day, there is always the same incident,” said one of them.
“Very much, the mother of the child also died with the same condition, and now she is in the orphanage”
“Pity, I hope he is adopted” soon
Hearing that, he approached the residents who were talking “apologize mom, son who mother mean what??”
“Marina Herlock, she saw the incident”
“How did you know??”
“See she was crying loudly beside her mother's corpse, the weather was raining, so her tears were filled with water, and we, her neighbors were not aware of the incident, so quickly we called the police and Marina herself we brought to the orphanage”
They recounted the events of Marina, and prayed that she would soon receive proper care, and a good family, and then ran to her office and reread the file, and it turned out that there was a page of paper attached and when he opened it, it was a photo of a girl who was next to her mother's body before the start of the investigation, they photographed her before the case was reported, Jason looked back at the photo. What the residents said at the time was true, it turned out that Marina was in the photo, sitting next to her mother's corpse, hugging her teddy bear, his face was puffy and wet because of the cry of the sky over the incident on him.
“Marina…..
he is the answer to all of this!!”
One of his colleagues saw him widen his eyes, “what's up, find the perpetrator??” tanyanya, he looked at her, “not, I have found witness”
“and he is….
my adopted son!”
