The After I Die

Everything's fine

Black smoke was still billowing in the sky, the heat was still felt in the air, Kina could not bear to linger in this place, her stomach was nauseous and almost vomited. he pulled Eda and Dayuti away to a large tree and sat down below.

“Now what?” Eda exhaled violently, wagging his shirt in a sultry manner, Dayuti sat not far from Kina, snorting.

“Of course the terror ends, what else?”

Eda looked at Dayuti with a frown for a while then he shrugged, Kina noticed the smoke soaring high in the sky, she let out a long sigh.

“I want to go to town.” Kina said softly, Dayuti immediately approached curiously.

“For what? Your father and mother are here, me and Eda are also here.”

Eda and Kina looked, they were silent for a while, Kina inwardly confirmed the words of Dayuti, her father and mother lived and lived in this village all their lives, it was not easy to take them out of her homeland, and also would they give permission if Kina returned to the city alone?

Kina started to doubt her heart's determination earlier.

“Stay here, we will be fine from now on,” Dayuti said again with a smile, he stroked Kina's shoulder, the girl just smiled back.

Kina sank her head to her knees, she was in a dilemma, her little heart seemed to say all these tragedies were not over, her feelings were not real, somehow she felt something was wrong, she did not know what it was, she did not know what it was, it was just that his heart had been continuously throbbing pain, feeling pain for no reason that he did not understand.

If perhaps everything would be fine, he could not face his mother anymore, too much that the woman had kept secret about Nukas death, he did not want to find out, he did not want to find out, afraid that his heart could not accept the reality even though he was curious half to death, his father also he could not face it anymore, his attitude was too changed, became cold and rough, his feelings like they were not his family.

Kina flinched, straightened her body, her eyes met the figure of her father and mother who walked hand in hand from a distance, she rounded her eyes, not feeling her tears falling.

From the beginning Kina did not recognize them, maybe they did have a blood bond, but for Kina her father and mother were strangers, she had no memories at all with them, she had no memories at all, his memories only revolved around his life in the city with his aunt, he also had no memories of living in this place, everything was indeed foreign, after his aunt died and his mother came to pick him up to the city, he said, Kina was not sure what a mother's affection was, she was always tough on her, scolding her every day, but now she looked weak and fragile, is there anything he has missed about his mother's change?

His eyebrows intertwined, Kina tried to gather the pieces of her memory, even though she tried hard, none of her memories of her mother in the past, empty.

He remembered his dream in the field with Eda, it was the only memory he had with the people in this village, but the field was not the place in this village.

“Kina, are you okay? Your face is pale.” Eda came closer and crouched down in front of Kina who was looking blankly at her, she held onto Kina's arm, shaking her anxiously.

“Eda,” said Kina while holding Eda's hand on her arm, she recalled the incident last night at Grandma Niba's house.

“What was last night, dream?”

Dayuti looked at Eda and Kina alternately with curious faces.

Kina was stunned, rubbing a trace of her tears on her cheeks, she did not expect that if those words came out of Eda's mouth, indeed they were all too real to be said to be a dream, but the question is why they woke up suddenly in bed?

Dayuti saw the two speechless and stuck in each other's minds, he nodded in understanding.

“You were saved by Ni Lewun.”

Kina looked at me. “What do you mean?”

“Either I can say this or not,” continued Dayuti by whispering softly Eda and Kina docked towards him, the atmosphere around them was not crowded, there were only a few villagers who came home from the village cleansing ritual.

“Your mother reported you disappeared yesterday, you guys were not missing for one night, but two nights.” Dayuti bit her lips, her face was anxious as if she was saying something forbidden. “The ritual should not be performed in the morning, it should be at dusk. But you disappeared, the villagers were looking for you in all directions and then Ni Lewun saw you stuck there because of Grandma Niba so they accelerated the ritual to stop all the misguided slums. If you are there too long ... maybe .. you will die.”

“So ... you mean .. me and Eda are stuck in another realm?”

Dayuti scratched his head that was not itchy, he did not agree and did not give refutation, the three of them were trapped in each other's minds.

“Just don't worry, Ni Lewun saved us all today.”

Kina nodded, although she felt a little doubt about Dayuti's story, but she and Eda could not believe anything about Dayuti's story, he looked up to see Dayuti standing up and stretched his stiff body from sitting too long.

“How about today we relax? To my house yuk, cook-cook.” Dayuti pulled Kina's arm, Eda hurriedly moved away from the two of them, he lazily got caught up in the women's activities.

“You guys, I want to talk to Ni Lewun,” he said as he stepped away.

Kina stood up and removed Dayuti's handrails from her arm, grimacing from the wounds obtained from her father.

“Let's go, I want to shower and rest,” he said with a smile, he felt his body was really sticky and dirty, what else he heard trapped two days in another realm, he felt disgusted with his own body, at this time all he needed was to take a bath and keep quiet, not fill his stomach.

Dayuti looked at him with an unwilling look, he nodded and waved his hand. “OK, I'm not forcing you.”

Kina returned the wave of Dayuti's hand, she slowly walked towards her house, some residents passed her, looked at her for a while and passed, Kina did not care much about her, her head was dizzy, too much she thought, too much, he needs a bath and sleep right now.

Unbeknownst to Ole Kina every step of her foot followed by someone, watching her movements carefully from a distance and hiding behind a roadside kariwaya tree, those eyes squinted when Kina got to her house, his fingers scratched the bark of the tree violently, his teeth rustling.

“Mati .. die ... die ..”