The Chronicle Of Jawata (Compilation Trial Edition)
4.30.
Ghrroaaaar ...!
The growl gets louder, closer, and the presence of frightening creatures is felt towards the whereabouts of the two children.
”Arraoragh!” pekik Lorr En realized what was going on, ”Why can it?” He was astonished to see Taja's gaze that meant something.
”Sorry, I used fire-raising magic to save Lanting, ” he said.
”What? Woe to us! Must be a lot of Arroragus kissing our existence!” Lorr En was suddenly more afraid than Taja, ”Ti ... dak ..” because he was too afraid he had tensed his face.
Ghrooooar ...!
The two kids are close to each other.
”They are all around us, probably tens ...,” hissing Taja. Lorr En shuddered at hearing that.
Sure enough, from the darkness of the corners of the vast room, appearing with a flash of eyes, roamed around besieging them. And one of the largest black hairy figures, staring intently at the two, a pair of red eyes, thick saliva flowing from his sharp-finged muzzle.
”Waaaaa ...! ” Taja and Lorr En shouted in unison before the creature jumped up and almost pounced on them.
”Na-hem Nam Nohr!”
The voice was not too loud to be heard, the presence of someone broke the siege of dozens of hungry creatures. In his hand was clasped a round glimmer of light, growing larger and dazzling, making Arraoragh in pain and blur from there.
The circle of light was getting bigger again until its size almost filled. Even Taja and Lorr En had curled up the glare. Until the peak, the light finally broke by making a sound like broken glass and the room was dark again. Although it was not dark before because there was a torch in the hand of someone who had helped them.
”Lorr!” exclamation Taja.
”You have acted rashly. What makes me so desperate, you think I don't know that a moment ago there was a horse so-called magic-generating fire that you made. Didn't we know if your actions could attract the Arraraagh creatures, you almost fell prey,” worried Lorr En, standing in front of Taja.
”Sorry ...,” said Taja just said a simple sentence.
Not long after they met, dozens of bodyguards came to the place. Each of them carried a torch.
”Who are you?” ask a bodyguard who has great influence in his group.
”We are lost,” answered Lorr En is still confused.
”Hey, he is our patient!” there was a nurse who said so when she found Taja among them.
”He tried to kemabli to the ward, but got lost in this room,” Shaninka said giving an explanation even though the bodyguard seemed to be less trusting.
”No shards whatsoever, Mr. ..” said a subordinate among those who was busy looking for traces of something.
”Do you hear the sound of broken glass?” ask the guard again. Shaninka somewhat long replied, ”Maybe. But we also don't know what it is?”
”You guys are out of here soon!” the guard's orders.
Shaninka and Lorr En, according to him, left a group of guards who were still busy tracing every corner of the room. While Taja was on his way back to the medical ward, the two children went there.
The situation is calm again. A little while after that, Taja was in his bed again and accompanied by Shaninka and Lorr En.
”How is it?” Shaninka asked a nurse who handled it.
”He was almost unconscious, his condition was very weak,” the nurse's answer was not enough to make both of them calm. Especially when he saw Taja suddenly woke up with a pale face and was about to vomit.
”Hueek!!!” a fist of thick black blood spewed out. He collapsed again, limp, completely unconscious.
”Yeah, what is this?” the nurse filled up the vomit shocked to see that. Other nurses have the same expression. For a moment they spoke not so clearly in the back. For a while, Taja was left unconscious.
Lorr En and Shaninka approach to the Taja bed.
”Will he be okay?” Shaninka glazed over looking at Lorr En.
”You're the best nurse. Maybe you also know what's going on with him?” lorr En asked, reminding Shaninka of her skills there.
”It's hardly felt,” Shaninka cried as a result, tears soaked Taja's wrists. And apparently, that made him realize.
”What's up?’ taja's voice shocked his two friends.
”You?!” the squealing of the two, especially Shaninka who looks teary.
”Why are you crying, Shaninka?” really, Taja didn't know that he was the one who worried her.
”Because of you,” answered.
”Any, how quickly you recover!” Lorr En was astonished.
”Excellent endurance of your body! You just got poisoned!” the Physician who was deliberately called to be no less surprised, ”I have not treated, but you have healed first.”
”Toxing?” Just can't believe, ”How can you? I never eat or drink anything except the ones on this table!”
All turned to look at a designated table, right next to the Taja bed. There were only small jugs of medicinal containers, empty cups and a pot of fresh water lying on it.
In a moment, the Physician briefly examined the items carefully, finally he concluded, ”This cup contains poison, and I am sure you have drunk it.”
All surprised, ”Poisons in a cup?!”
Some nurses who during guarding Taja feel accused, ”Not me! I'm not the one who gave it!” all evaded one by one, though no one accused either of them of doing so.
”I am not accusing you, but is any of you knowing someone deliberately brought or sent food or drink to a patient without orders! Maybe a visitor for example?” Physician asked.
No time to answer, a captain did not know since when he had listened to their conversation.
”What poison does it look like?” ask him as he approaches all those who huddle around Taja's bed.
”Chairman Sujinsha?” The healer lowered his head in a sign of salute, followed by another, ”Toxins are quite deadly, Lamur compounds,” continued Tabib answer the captain's question that just came.
”How can dozens of nurses be negligent?” ask him again after a moment of observing and sniffing the cup in the hand of the physician holding.
The doctor looked at the nurses one by one, looking as if they felt guilty for the words of Chairman Sujinsha.
”Sorry, Sir..at that moment, it was my turn to stand guard here with my three comrades. But this morning's execution has left us no longer concerned about duty. Therefore, they left the ward for the sake of seeing Lanting, while I. was acting foolishly behind the medicine room,” a nurse whose face was clearly known by Taja revealed the reason.
”I am guilty, please forgive me,” he continued.
”I Also! Please forgive our negligence!” three other nurses were involved.
”Already, I understood the situation this morning. Not only you guys, I'm also negligent on the job. Almost all attention was paid to Lanting's execution. To the extent ...,” The Captain does not continue his sentence.
”So, how about Mister?”
”I'll investigate the case. It feels, someone deliberately wants to poison Taja!” for a while, Chief Sujinsha concluded so. After confiscating the cup that proved to be the remaining poison, the Physician and some nurses left the place.
Only Lorr En, Shaninka, the Sujinsha Chief, as well as a nurse were left.
”Many want you dead, Taja! So beware. It is also your fault that you chose to stay here. In fact, if you guys accepted my offer to run away back then, maybe I could help. But for now, it is too late,” Chairman Sujinsha did not linger in that place. He left after leaving a message.
Next, the last nurse said something to Taja, ”Sorry, I ignored you. Too careless to the point that something like this happens. But I make sure after this will not happen again, I will take care of you seriously,” he said.
”What's your name, nurse?” during this time often with him, Taja did not even know the name of the person who took care of him.
”Not know me?” the nurse was astonished.
”Your clothes are the same, and you all look similar!” the word Taja followed by another laugh.
”Bhiswa Kailla, Tunggali tribe, 16 years old. If you want to know again, I don't have a girlfriend yet,” the nurse smiled a little.
”Lanting, your friend, is safe,” said Taja redirecting to another conversation.
”How are you sure after that smoky horse..hey, did you guys also see the strange incident during the execution?” ask Bhiswa, the nurse.
Taja was immediately silent, it was precisely Lorr En and Shaninka who diverted the answer.
”All see it, magic power is more reliable than the heartless human,” said Lorr En.
”Magic? All this time I could hardly believe it? No matter where such a miracle came from, it was clear that it had all passed. Lanting is somewhere safe, maybe there ...,” nurse Bhiswa said with a glaring eye.
”Taja, do you know, what pill did you swallow earlier?” changing Bhiswa who switched the topic, the question made Lorr En and Shaninka look at Taja's face.
"No idea,” replied Taja.
Nurse smiled knot, ludicrous answer of her voice, turned she held back laughter, ”Pil pregnant women.”
Lorr En and Shaninka made it ticklish, ”What?!” they shouted together holding a smile. The natural feeling of sadness so mingled funny.
”Lucky! Maybe those pills made you vomit the poison!” added Bhiswa as she passed away. Lorr En and Shaninka had not stopped laughing until his figure did not appear again behind the door.
Taja was silent, holding on not to laugh, even though he was actually amused.
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