Taint

Broken Wings

The young girl who had focused on reading, looked up immediately when she heard Kaivan's footsteps. He smiled as he put his book on the table. However, his actions only made Kaivan surprised.

Not the look or appearance, the one thing that stole Kaivan's attention was the girl's book. The cover image reminded Kaivan of a female figure who was out of nowhere now.

"Mas, is something wrong with me?" The girl was misbehaved because Kaivan kept looking at her, even forgetting to give up the food rations.

"Eh, em, sorry. This is ... this is allotment for you" Kaivan said.

Then, he hurriedly placed the food box onto the table. When he bowed, his gaze returned to the book cover. Then, his feelings suddenly fell apart.

"Mmm, Ma'am," call Kaivan.

"Yes." Yeah."

"May know this ... what book?" kayla asked a little doubt.

"Oh, it's a novel. Boom again, Mom. It's a good story." The girl smiled.

"Can ... see for a minute?" ask Kaivan.

"Please, Mum!" The girl took the book and handed it to Kaivan. "The flow is good and the writing is neat, the sentence series is very beautiful. But ... the story is very sad, heart-wrenching," he continued.

"Oh." Kaivan answered briefly while receiving the book with a predominant light blue color.

Kaivan again observed the cover image of—a girl was sitting holding a book and pen. Her hair was curled up originally and a little messy. Due to the shooting from the side position, the girl's gaze was clearly visible towards the almost setting sun.

"Nadhea" Kaivan's inner.

His memory immediately glared at the incident four years ago, when he found Nadhea was contemplating while holding a book. The style and position of Nadhea at that time, exactly the same as the cover of the book that is in his hands at this time. What's more, the cover background is also the same as where Nadhea is located, namely Mount Rinjani.

Out of curiosity, Kaivan stared at the writing for the writing listed there. One sentence he first saw was the book title—Wings-Wings Broken. Then, switch on the small posts that are above the title—Sad Story. Then, continue on the bottom of the article—By GREY.

"Grey, is this the author's name?" kaivan muttered. It is slow, but can be heard by the owner of the book.

"Yes, Mas. The author's name is Grey. But ... It's a pen name, not a real name."

"What's real name?" ask Kaivan.

"I don't know, he was very secretive, never showed his personal information" the girl replied.

"Oh."

After seeing the logo and publisher's name, Kaivan turned the book upside down and read a long line of sentences on the back cover.

~~Western leaves are forced to fall before dry. He did not have time to look at the beautiful buds that were scattered, even the head of the pistil that slowly became fruit.

He fell down and was scattered among the trash. Struggling against the roar of the wind and the blow of dust, for the sake of a glimmer still far in the eye.

Relying on a belief that God's power is invincible, he smiled against the sunlight even though some bodies had been burned. He moved away from his host and looked for another place to shelter. But the world is a hard place. Is there still empathy for such useless stuff? Ikallah~~

"What does this mean?" inner Kaivan.

Actually, Kaivan wanted to ask further. However, not long after his phone rang, it was Kennan who called. His friend asked Poisi because he did not return. As a result, Kaivan resigned and failed to read the book 'Wings-Wings Broken'.

"Later I'll look for it on the internet," Kaivan said as he walked to his place.

"Where are you going, so long ago" Kennan scolded as Kaivan had landed his body on the chair.

"You why? Any problem? The client is angry or___"

"No," concluded Kaivan.

"Continue?"

"I___"

"Kaivan, Kennan, after this immediately go to the location and prepare the tools! Try to finish before night," said Candhra—, in charge of the event.

"Well, sir," Kennan and Kaivan replied simultaneously.

Candhra passed by and approached the other crew. He urged them to get ready, including Nia who served as MUA. Kaivan doesn't want to waste time. He immediately opened the lunchbox and sped up the mouthful. Then, move on and obey the orders of superiors. He thought, it was better to finish before night, so he could go home and not need to stay overnight.

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Not always hope in accordance with reality, sometimes misses far from the estimate. As is the case tonight, with forced Kaivan and Kennan spend the night in Batu City. The photo shoot in the plan will be completed before dusk, it turns out to be late until 10:00 pm.

All happened because of the weather that is less supportive, heavy rain suddenly flushed without permission. Tools that have been arranged forced to be packed and rearranged when the weather is sunny, very waste of time. In addition, after-dusk shooting uses a different theme, so they take a short time to change properties. That's why, work is delayed until late at night.

In this second, Kaivan laid his body in bed— in the hotel, in Stone City, without bathing or just changing clothes. He was very tired, to the point of ignoring Kennan's reprimand that had called him a slob.

"I'm really throwing up if you don't shower, Kai! I swear to God, sweat you!" kennan Ogat.

"In a moment, still straighten the back," Kaivan replied without stopping his activity—lying while playing the phone.

"Aleshan! Say still miss the candidate bini," said Kennan. "Try to take a video call, must be directly ilfil with you."

"The more days you're getting chatty, Ken. Mother has lost to you" said Kaivan.

Kennan did not reply, simply throwing a sofa cushion at Kaivan's body. However, those thrown just laugh, without looking or moving.

Actually, Kaivan is not struggling with chat applications, but busy browsing on the internet. He was very curious about the novel Wings of Broken Wings, by Grey.

However, Kaivan's plan again ran aground. The reason is, there is a phone call before the article can be read.

"Reyvan .. tumben." Kaivan muttered as he rubbed the green button. "Hallo, assalamu'alaikum, Rey," he said.

"Waalaikumsalam, Brother. Can you go home now, right?" ask Reyvan quickly.

"What's wrong?" Kaivan immediately got up. He caught something bad from his sister's tone of speech.

"Kak__"

Seriate...

Guess what the next thing is.

A. There's a barbarian chick coming home.

B. Luna and her family have come to cancel the wedding.

C. There's something about Athreya.

D. The other.