The Journey of Eternity

Trail 57 - Nan Indah's Place.

A man was sitting leaning leisurely on a boulder, a large, darkened rock right on the edge of a vast, half-circular lake. The gentle breeze gently slammed into her somewhat long hair and made the hot temperature around swept away. A moment later, someone slowly called out his name from a distance.

“Dad! Lunch is ready!” a girl shouted from a distance.

“Good!” the man moved from his seat.

A girl wearing long white clothes and sepaha shorts with her hair in short pigtails behind, stared intently at the man who came to her. They walked into a wooden house with smoke billowing over it.

Inside there was already an old woman and grandmother sitting steadily in front of the table and facing the food in front of her.

“Alright, happy dinner..”.

They all ate so voraciously with a warm smile that mediated happiness there.

“Oh! Nak Verles what's tonight going to go?” said the old grandmother.

“No, today is off..” Verles smile.

“Then, later tonight can you take mom to something place?”

“Of course..”.

After they had eaten, Verles came out of the house and sat on the stone again and stabbed to death the weather. Until someone slowly came up to her and called her name gently.

“Anu... Verles, can I join?” said a woman who previously sat with grandma.

“Of course. Come here, Miss Leira.” Welcome Verles waving his hand.

The woman walked up to the stone and was about to go up, but because of her long skirt she was unable and finally made by Verles. Until accidentally, the tarika is too strong until the woman was thrown up on Verles' body until she was crushed.

“Eh! Sorry,” Leira immediately pulled her body down and sat down next to Verles with her face flushed red.

“Are you okay? Is this too hot?” Verles drew his face closer to the woman.

“No! I'm fine..”.

“Ohh, alright.”.

For some time, the two of them just stared at the blue sky without even hearing a word. Verles patted her on the shoulder without turning his eyes.

“No feeling, Trisia and I have lived here for a long time. A beautiful place like this, I don't think I want to just leave it. Right, right?” Verles turned to the direction his opponent was speaking.

“Then... what's your whole life, you will stay here?”

“Okay, I want it to be. But I'm not sure either. I hope this place will never once be plastered by those demons.”.

“So? Gladly..” Leira whispered, clasping her two hands in front of her face.

The day was just next to each other until night had arrived, they had dinner as usual. Until the old Grandma took him to a place Verles had never known before. A place in the hills hidden in good thick trees.

“Come, Son. You're happy to look up at the sky, right? Here is a more beautiful place.” said the old grandmother.

“Ohh... this is really... perfect.”

The view of dense forest and small settlements adjacent to each other, as if directly bounded with the starry night sky. For tonight the moon shines not one bit and is replaced by starlight that fills the sky as long as the eye can see. Until the grandmother patted Verles on the shoulder and broke his daydream.

“Hei... This is not all I show you, there is something I want to say,” the grandmother smiled thinly behind her already wrinkled face.

“Listen to this story of mine. Not long ago, I dreamed of a civil war going on in the kingdom. The descendants of the king most in me apparently only want the property of his citizens and raise taxes as high as possible,”

“Then what is that relationship with me?”

“In the dream, the king's son was two, the older brother was a smart and talented child, yet he was the one who didn't care. His brother was a very loyal prince. And you know who the big brother is? That's you..” The grandmother looked at the young man next to her.

Suddenly the child immediately looked back and put on a surprised face to the grandmother, then the grandmother smiled faintly at him.

“When possible it happened, only a few mistakes were possible. I was the only child of the Berlesh kingdom, and I fled even before being crowned crown prince, so obviously it was not.” Verles sentence suddenly stopped when remembering something.

“What's wrong?”

“You are right, the king has a new empress who became my stepmother. But at that time he was declared barren, what was up to his team?”

“Think of yourself! Why are you forcing parents like this to think hard. Besides, there's something else I'd like to ask,”

“Hah? am I not the older one?” Verles sighed in annoyance.

“Hahaha.. You're right too, alright. Now answer my question. If only, if anything had happened here, would you have stayed here and also protected my daughter?” the grandmother stared intently after laughing.

Without giving an answer, Verles turned his gaze toward the sky and pointed at one of the stars that shone brighter than the others, then he smiled.

“I don't think that's necessarily the case, a beautiful place this will stay like this and won't change one bit. But if that happens, of course, I'm not here. Your daughter is a great woman, greater than anyone else. Just like the beautiful place he lives, nothing will happen here.” said Verles, as sure as possible.

“Isn't that just your opinion?”

“Haha, right. That's just my opinion..”

“Alright, the day is getting late. Let's go back before they search..”.

They went down a small hill that Verles had not realized until they had gotten down below. At home, Calissto and Leira are waiting for the two of them to return, with Leira continuing to ask where the two of them are. But the grandmother simply returned a smile to Verles until she suddenly felt awkward.

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In a wooden house located in the middle of the forest, people gathered crowded there with sad faces. An old grandmother who seemed to have become their mother, has now left this world. Not a few who shed tears over his departure, especially Leira herself as his daughter.

“Unexpectedly, last night was the last message he gave. I hope you leave quietly, Grandma Ands.” said Verles staring at the funeral that was in front of him.

“Now I realize that what you said could have happened, then what if I myself am not here to protect?” he continued smiling thinly.

The death of the mother greatly devastated Miss Leira, sometimes she just sat around daydreaming on the terrace while staring at the rain that sometimes fell. This was the complete opposite of his friendly and cheerful nature, until he asked Verles something blatantly.

“Can I say something?” said doubtful.

“Sure, just ask,”

“If you could tell me what you and mom did that night?”

For a moment Verles just silently looked at the woman sitting next to him, until finally he sighed and told her everything, including the question expressed by the grandmother before. The woman was too excited not to be surprised by it, but suddenly tears just flowed down the woman's cheeks.

“What's really going to happen? When that happens... will you stay here?”

“Time goes too fast. My age will also be shorter, I myself am not sure when it happens, whether I am still alive..

This is a step that happened 92 years ago, where time would take it all to the point of being completely invisible.