The Chronicle Of Jawata (Compilation Trial Edition)

46. The Valley of the Gundils (1)

Morning is very bright.

That day in an old cabin in the Gundil Valley, Taja and Mr. Black Dog were, the sunlight evoked the 15-year-old from his sleep last night, his eyelids slowly opening. Taja, feeling confused realized he had been in a soft bed. He was trying to remember what had happened last night, now that he was in that place. The room was clean and neat, the fragrant aroma of the flower fields burst into the room. While dressing in the chest and left arm. Sometimes he grinned withstanding the pain of dueling with the incarnate wolf of the Black Dog Master.

Taja was stunned, looking at the situation around the old cottage room. Totally changed, like someone bewitched her to be this good, or maybe she was dreaming. Taja was not finished astonished, a sturdy man came from beside the cottage, his footsteps heard from where Taja was. Then the figure entered the room where he was in the bed.

“What's your marg name?“ one question from the Black Dog Master greeted him awake. But Taja could not answer from asking about things that he himself never knew.

”Price? Why did Mister suddenly ask that?” Just ask back.

“Already aware apparently, your sleep is like someone fainted last night. Like not sleeping, but actually fainting,“ the guy cleared his throat holding a smile.

“Gentleman who?“ taja asked again, full of wonder to see a foreign figure had been on one roof with him at this time. The man looked back, smiling once more on his lips.

“Really you don't recognize me anymore, fairy man?“ Asked the man, Taja was even more astonished by him.

“You, even know the real me, who is Mr?“

“Why do you hesitate and call me Sir? just call me like yesterday!”

“I really don't recognize you, Mr. ..”

That person laughed out loud, instead with Taja, just dumbly not understanding.

“Call me ... Mr Black Dog!”

“What?!” Taja was surprised to hear the man admit he was the Black Dog Master.

“How is it possible? Mr. Black Dog is an old man, he is around 80s, he is very weak, and .…”

“Obscrease ... so, right?“ the man laughed again after cutting Taja's sentence.

“True, that was what I was yesterday, but after the science of the Fire Wolf vanished from within me, then I changed my form again just like before I learned the science. This is the real me, Taja .. here I am! The Old Mr. Black Dog you met yesterday,” he continued.

The tall, strapping and long-haired man was black-patterned although there was still some gray hair on the sidelines of the hair surface, but much younger than the Black Dog Master he had known yesterday.

 “How could this possibly happen? But if this is true ... means you are free from the science of Fire Wolf?“

The man who claimed to be the Black Dog Master nodded, then laughed again. Taja slowly accompanied his laughter.

“However Mr has broken the promise,” Taja's tone of voice sounds firm despite being very tired. The Black Dog Master frowned, it was strange to hear the boy call him master. In addition, he also felt guilty for the incident last night.

“I'm sorry, Taja. I really don't remember that yesterday was a full moon night, moments like that I could turn into a wolf before. I'm really sorry, would you forgive me?“

Taja nodded, “But ... next time if you dare to promise not to deny again!”

Mr. Black Dog nodded unable to hold back a laugh, he just smiled, ”Alright,”.

”Not serious?“ Not sure though.

“Not so. It's funny that you call me Sir because it's been a long time that no one has called me that. They are used to calling me Old Foul, Old Mad, Old Devil, Old Smelly .. or. Only after last night, you were the first to call me Master. Though Yesterday you still called me Mr Black Dog only, why now call me Master? Is it because of my changed appearance?” Taja had trouble answering the question of Mr. Black Dog.

“Yes, very different from the current state of the Lord. Master looks more dashing and younger, so I would feel brash if calling Mister by name only,” Taja said blushingly, greeted by the laughter of Mr. Black Dog hearing that answer.

Just this time Taja realized that it turns out that Mr. Black Dog is someone who is humorous and smiling. There was no weight visible on his face, he solemnly looked relaxed and thoroughly enjoyed life.

“Don't look at me like that, Taja. I know what you're thinking about me, more than that .. I can read almost the entire contents of your mind,” Mr. Black Dog's gaze switches out the window.

“O, yes? I can't believe it! Wherever possible, Master did not even look at me as he spoke,” Taja got up from his bed and approached Mr. Black Dog then stood next to him facing the window, looking at the beautiful panorama out there.

”Wooow!”

Taja amazed by the very beautiful panorama from behind the old window frame. The expanse of wild flowers bloomed as wide as the eye could see, tracing all the way to the foothills. Whistling small birds here and there, beautiful colorful dragonflies and butterflies flying in the rug of flowers on the edge of the cliffs. This is something that has never happened before in that place.

“How is it possible, it's a miracle! I feel like I'm at home. But ... why did it suddenly turn out like this just overnight? Wasn't yesterday ...,” Taja has not been separated from the lingering wonder. Remembering the first time when it came to a place that seemed very haunted, scattered many dead and muddy trees. But now the same place has greatly changed.

”Which maybe just last night has changed? Unless we're somewhere else!”

“No! We were still in that cabin yesterday. Only his surroundings have changed because of your presence .. also because there is no more evil air. Everything is back to how it was! This is how this place was before. The people of Tanapura often call it ’Lost Flower Hills’...,” Mr. Black Dog stretches both hands out the window with his eyes closed, breathing fresh air in the natural beauty of the day. A bright sunlight hit her clean and fresh face, again a smile of freedom embellishing on her face.

”Because of my presence?” there's one awkward word from Mr. Black Dog's review. While the big tall man was still focused on nature, Taja elaborated on that strange thought.

”Because you are, in fact, a half-fairy man,” said Mr. Black Dog.

”How Can Sir ..?!” Taja surprised. It turns out that Mr. Black Dog already knows who Taja really is. In fact, he never told anyone.

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