The Chronicle Of Jawata (Compilation Trial Edition)
5. Slave 1000 Gold Pieces (1)
Clattering the steel drawn iron chains, the banners fluttered at each end of the ship's sail. Taja slowly moved after a night of unconsciousness.
"Nggh ..," Taja groaned from the wounds on his legs and back, it was very painful. The blood has dried up. Instantly he was wide-eyed, realizing that he was curled up on the mossy floor. The tall pillars supporting the black sails, the more aware Taja was on a foreign ship.
Somewhat bobbing on a giant sky-roofed ship. Sayup-sayup heard a noise around Taja surrounded by strangers looking cruel and staring at him.
”This young man, seems familiar!”
A crew whispered near a man wearing a mask, lying on an old iron bench. For a long time he observed Taja, from head to toe. Some of the other crew members who were huddled also behaved like that.
”Hmm, this youngster is very similar to the figure people are rumored to be. I don't know, we can trade it for thousands of gold pieces! I heard Kakilangit people are never full of buying young people his age!” said the masked man, momentarily thinking of the advantages.
”Was the Boy of Catastrophe that the Jawata people hunted?” he grins. All his followers were laughing and whistling.
The masked man raised Taja's face.
”Kakilangit people must be happy!” he said again on the sidelines black teeth grinning and smelling breath.
Not yet over Taja confused because he felt a foreign atmosphere around him, it appears Lorr En and Neirra are also tied in chains in an unconscious state, both lying a bit away from Taja is.
”Lorr En. Neirra, wake up,” Taja's voice calls two of his friends.
The sound of the big waves crashing into the wall of the ship. Water spray up to the limit of the base of the sail poles.
”Lorr ...,” call Taja again. But Lorr En did not budge.
”Neirra ...,” call her switch on the only girl among the three of them. But he was also not wrinkled, tightly closed, looking bruised blue at the temple.
The crew poured into the bodies of Taja, Lorr En and Neirra, buckets filled with seawater while snapping.
”Build, Boys!”
But Lorr En and Neirra had not yet realized.
Another person with a haunted face, wearing a dull armour, his hair and face were silky with a series of black grinning teeth, suddenly touching Taja's shoulder from behind.
”Do not carelessly touch the child, you can make it fall in price!” hardik someone with half a head that has since been still observing from his stool.
Taja was more confused because since it was realized, the people had not stopped observing him. Look into their sharp eyes as if wanting to swallow raw.
”The two must be very happy!” the masked man grinned. But not long berleha-leha, suddenly heard a loud voice reply to each other memahut the crew, welcome the arrival of another large ship docked. A wooden bridge was soon installed between two large ships.
”Chairman arrives!”
The irregular steps were quite stomping on the floor. A moment later, the crew members sprang even more into the middle of the bridge.
The sky looks beautiful up there. When he returned to the surroundings, Taja saw that many people had gathered in a circle in a short time. Then one of the most influential and feared people, came into the midst of it. He was wearing different clothes from the ordinary crew, and there was a black cloth tie with two crossed blades on his head that had the hair of a long-haired cat.
A masked man was originally sitting on a scrap metal bench, getting up and letting the man take his place.
”How dare you stop by this bench!” for a moment he ambushed a masked crewman carrying a short stick tipped with an iron hook that he always held.
”Ampun, Chairman!” he was terrified in a squalid position on the wet wooden floor and diverted the conversation as soon as possible.
”These kids, overnight catch,” he continued.
The three children were dragged together in place. Lastly, Taja was stomped just below the feet of the man called the captain.
”Where are you from, Young Man?” The pirate leader wore a black ribbon on his head, throwing a question at Taja who had been awake since.
Taja was silent, without answering a word, just returning the eyes of the person who asked.
”You understand my question? Who and where are you from?!” somewhat snapping louder, the Chairman repeated the question.
Slowly, Taja pointed his right hand towards her.
”Are you Jawata People?” ask Taja. All the crew members looked at each other.
”This child speaks what language?” they heard whispers, they grumbled in wonder.
”I heard him hissing,” some others replied.
The head twirled his beard in addition to curls was also somewhat sticky. He seems to be thinking something serious.
”Inhabitants of the forest interior,” muttered Chairman, quite audible to everyone.
”What will we do to these children, Chairman?” ask a man next to the chairman.
”We will sell it to Kakilangit, it will definitely be high in price!” the other one is angry. But the Chief was silent for a moment before deciding.
”I will send the three of them to Leader Moura with another catch.”
”Leader Moura?” all turned their eyes towards the Chief curled up on the old bench. Their mouths involuntarily spoke in unison a name that sounded feared by the entire crew.
”He will give us a very large wage beyond gold if it is proven this child is the most hunted boy in Jawata,” said the Chairman was very happy.
”I'll ask for sea power for the most valuable catch in return!” he continued to exclaim loudly, accompanied by a cold smile and touched Taja's face after observing it carefully.
”Move these kids to the bottom deck!” the Chairman's orders and executed his men.
”Lorr En. Neirras. Wake you up,” exclaimed Taja many times, as the crew of the ship herded out of the place. They took two of his friends and headed to the bottom deck. One stuffy room with no air gap and full of wet hay. In the corner of the deck room, there is an iron cage. Dozens of children were tied to each other in it.
He was pushed in violently. Moreover, Lorr En and Neirra, both of them were rolled into wet straw behind a cage. Then the crew left, Taja saw a bunch of children in the same cage. They gathered in a very tired state. Some were injured for days without treatment. The innocent faces of those children, their average age was an average of a dozen years old.
”Neirra.”
Taja turned his head for a moment to a friend who began to stir next to Lorr En who was frozen drowning. When he opened his eyes, Neirra gasped.
”Taja ...,” shivering Neirra's body felt great pain.
”I'm here,” Taja crawling, approaching Neirra lying in a haystack. A little relieved Neirra's face when she saw Taja with her.
”Taja, where am I?” the voice of Neirra in between the breaths stinged. He tried while sitting, ”I'm so scared.”
”Do not worry, at least we are still together ..” Taja said and touched Neirra's bruised forehead, then blew it while saying a word, saying,
”Eist ...”
Sounded hissing. He also did that to Lorr En who had not realized. In just a few puffs, the reddish-blue bruise on the temples of Lorr En slowly thinned out.
”Eist ...,” last said Taja wander down to so many times until the wound disappeared completely and slowly the voice of Lorr En began to sound.
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