The Chronicle Of Jawata (Compilation Trial Edition)
44. Black Dog Master (4)
”What's up?” Shaninka was astonished as Lorr En glared sharply in the direction behind Shaninka. They were fixed on an object at the edge of the hall.
”Mirror it!” lorr En shouted while pointing at him.
That moon is the mirror we met when we first stepped on the Silver Palace. That time Taja ...,” Shaninka recalls to those times.
”Mirror Two Face!” lorr En cried as he approached slowly.
”Hey, what do you want, Lorr En?” Shaninka followed a few steps. But, as soon as he recalls Taja's words, he forbids them to approach the mirror. ’Dangerous!’ one word came from the prohibition of Taja at that time.
”What do you want, Lorr En?” Shaninka was stopped in place, not with Lorr En approaching until two horns before the Two-Faced Mirror.
”Do not approach, dangerous!” shaninka exclaimed, not harried at all. Lorr En was already mesmerized by his own reflection in the mirror.
”This is me? This handsome? you call this beautiful apparition dangerous? If you know since Taja said that, then at that time I will violate it. It was only fitting that he would linger in front of this mirror. Amazing!” Lorr En was like concocting himself. Saying the words from the mirror image he saw, but strangely to Shaninka who stood a few steps behind, he only saw the image of Lorr En unchanged from the original.
”I am a prince, there is a crown on my head...Waw! Never seen myself this handsome before!” Lorr En was blown away. Too lulled in his own reflection, his hands began to touch the surface of the mirror. One or two touches makes him not only see, but also feel as if he is breathing in it. There was a face of her who looked sparkling, touching her hands and dressed sparkly like princely fashion. But as the shadow behind the mirror slowly turned heartbreaking, the image of him was immersed in the depths of the dark water and was blind. Difficulty breathing, very tight chest, flailing upwards. Lastly, something he saw was terrible. There was a gaping incision on his bruised, blueish and half-rotted chest in a body figure shrunk in the darkness!
”Aagh!!” Lorr En gasped loudly, when he realized he was already on the floor. Not just to endure the pain, but everything he had just seen continued to cling to the brain. He was even more surprised when he realized Shaninka was not far from him, being very close to the mirror surface. Just a little distance away.
”No, no...touch!” lorr En's half-stuttering scream in thought was still chaotic, but it was too late because Shaninka had first touched the shiny surface of the worn mirror.
”I'm so beautiful!! Where could I be like this. My face ... is not at all like a monkey, two clear blue eyes, my nose is sharp and my face is very bright .. like a morning without sadness .. without burden .. and without..”.
Shaninka's rachor stopped as the mirror's reflection changed, her originally beautiful figure gradually dimmed and grew paler. He closed his eyes in fear and silence. Suddenly everything went dark, the breath heavy and the chest covered in blood.
”Wuaaaaa!!” unbearably, Shaninka screamed before Lorr En ambushed her to get away from the mirror. Shaninka's body slammed onto the floor after Lorr En had just hit her.
”Shaninka?” Lorr En called his name slowly. But Shaninka was just silently shaking and still in a conscious state and not. It seemed that he had not yet returned from the shadow cast by the Two-Figure Mirror.
The sound of footsteps stopped near the two boys lying on the floor. His familiar face put on a fierce look.
”So this is your behavior, secretly, secretly for what?”
Still in trembling Lorr En and Shaninka rose.
”Alingga Princess?!” they were surprised that the princess caught him.
”Hmm ... You guys want to be punished by me or according to the regulations of Silver Palace?” Princess Alingga offers two equally unfavorable options. Shaninka and Lorr En looked at each other for a moment.
Gong was hit twice, dancing to the party still going on. The zither and flute music plays together with the weak motion of dozens of female dancers in the middle of the hall.
While the night increasingly stretched its wings followed by the originally overcast weather gradually brightened. In the eastern horizon slowly dawned a full moon from behind the black clouds on the ceiling of Tanapura.
Just as the night coincides with the full moon, all the residents there celebrate the same feast every year, reveling, eating plenty of food that is plentiful on tables lined up tens of meters long. Some of them danced around the campfire, ranging from small children playing fireworks, until parents told each other and in tandem with the rhythm of the strings melodious sitar. The atmosphere was getting brighter as the night turned bright.
But somewhere, just a few hundred meters from the place of the people's feast, just in the middle of a small forest behind a hill, agitated and frightened among the lush darkness of the trees, his two sharp eyes radiating reddishness continued to stare at the full moon that was more and more perfect to reveal its form.
“Aaargh!!” The figure wriggled repeatedly under the full moonlight that led to it. In any case he hides behind a grove of popon, but something that must happen is inevitable.
The figure that was originally an old man shrieked in pain, then slowly his face and body turned into a terrible creature, growing bigger until the shabby clothes he wore were torn apart.
Some time he was like that with a breath of gasp, floundering on the ground.then rose up in the form of a big, black, hairy wolf, and ranging from all four feet until his chest full of fire blazed.
Auuuuuuuuu!!! ....
Auuuuuuuuu!!! ....
The roar of the wolf spread twice over the entire edge of Tanapura and was heard to the ears of almost everyone who was partying at the Silver Palace.
Attention Shaninka, Lorr En and Princess Alingga moved far to the eastern horizon, “Where did the wolf howl come from?“ Shaninka looked deep at the edge of Tanapura, as did nearby Lorr Endi.
“Looks like the direction of the hills there. Sapo Settlement!“ princess Alingga.
”Switch Settlement?!” Lorr En and Shaninka were tense to hear it. Then the two looked at each other.
“Taja being there!” shaninka's worries are getting hotter.
“I don't know the way there!“
“Lorr En, go for it! Sure can! Come on, I'm worried in case something happens to her ..then you should go there right away!” pinta Shaninka was a bit spoiled anxious.
“Tonight is Bithari day of the month of Wehu coinciding with the full moon, a sacred and sacred night .. have never heard of it?” princess Alingga.
”It is common in this country, the legend of the ghost wolf ... fire wolf .. or whatever, it always terrorizes the population at every full time like now. However, there is something else that makes me wonder because of your behavior that infiltrated the heirloom room...what is your purpose to this place?”
Shaninka and Lorr Entertain realized that they were violating the rules of the palace.
”Double mistake for you, besides infiltrating.you were not even invited here,” continued Princess Alingga while referring to Lorr En.
The two men were silent and could not reason anything.
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