TRAPPED IN THE MAYIT VALLEY
CHAPTER 25. DISSEMINATED
“I'm coming with you.. I'm cementing you Von..” Bondet
“Nov.. if you want to come with me and Bondet.. Let's go now, but it's still early morning by noon” Ivon said
Novi looked at me.. I know he must be confused, on the other hand he is a friend of Ivon, on the other hand we have survived several times in worse circumstances than this.
“Already….Gini is all up to you, want to stay here or want to leave here, but it's good if you go by the bridge only, just, through the fog rather than through a path that you do not know there”
“If I was private I stayed here waiting for it to be completely safe, and waited for my friends Broni and Gilank even though they might have been cadavers”
“Tif, Nov... We have been in more terrible circumstances than this, we have been in Gilank and I am already dead, but our friends no one left me right..”.
“Now it all depends on you.I will stay here waiting for safe circumstances, and wait for our friend to come, although it could have come just his spirit just”.
Ivon and Bondet have never been in the state we have been through.
I. I better wait for my two friends to come, even if they are a family burden, but they are both my two friends.
“Now decide what you will do.. I will return to the empty house and wait for my friend to come, I will survive there in various ways”.
“Nov, TIF, Ndet, Von.. It all depends on where you are going, and think carefully..”.
I turned and walked home….. I know what I decided to stay here was not right, but to walk through the woods, the ravines, the valleys, and the hills was not even a good decision….
“Wil wait for me.. I came with you” said Tifano who then followed me
Novi is still with Bondet and Ivon, he seems to be unable to escape from Ivon. until me and Tifano have started to enter the village no sound of Novi following me.
I assume he's with Ivon and Bondet
“Wil.. What is our decision right?”
“Tif.. in this situation there is no right decision, there is the best decision.. “.
“You and the other Sutopo children have been in a situation more dire than this, and we all finally survived kan”
“Another reason.....I don't want to leave Gilank and Broni, even though they might be dead or what, at least we wait for their spirits or what is Tif hehe”
“And let you see just now.. the foggy abyss and we do not know how deep the abyss is... after the ravine then have to climb the hill as you saw... are we able to like Tif?”
“I think we should hit the fog…. The fog is across from it.. That's better than having to cross ravines, valleys and hills”
“I don't know Ivon and Bondet Tif's way of thinking.mbuh, their way of thinking is even want to get closer to Lord”.
“Iya Wil... eh kalaau so we look for groceries first Wil.. find tubers that are located a bit far from the village settlement whose land is not terrible”
“Yes there is Tif. there at a glance I saw a cassava tree lined with jerer.. Maybe the land there is not as terrible as those around the house”
As far as Tifano and I walked, Novi and the others did not catch up with us, I knew they were in a hurry to walk through the forest they did not control.
The atmosphere of this morning before noon remained foggy, only it was not drizzling like that when we were here. On our right there is a cassava garden, I don't know who planted cassava here, but we have a tree, what is certain is that cassava plants are lined up neatly.
“Agree Wil”
It remains foggy and cold…
After pulling out one cassava plant, then we took it to the empty house we occupied before. I know the house is terrible, but I think the empty house here is just as horrible.
Arriving at the empty house, the cassava that we pulled this morning and we did not eat because there is a piece of white cloth that is still in front of the house, yes obviously still there, yes, who else would take the cassava, isn't it here it's an empty village.
We opened the door of the house, it was still like when we lived this morning, only the fire was dead, and left charcoal and ash from the rest of the previous burning.
“Just put this cassava we just picked up in front of the Tif furnace. I will add firewood... so that the soil that covers this cassava dries and is easy to clean”.
“Lho we are back here again Wil?”
“Yes is Tif.. I'm sure the river is still overflowing..”.
We both walked towards the river.. And it is true that the river is still overflowing and the bamboo bridge has been washed away by the swift river current.
“Wil.. no more bridges” complained Tifano
“No Papa Tif, later we will find a way to cross the river easily”
“Now we have to fill the stomach first Tif... so that we can be stronger.
We returned to the empty house, drizzle began to appear again, fog and cold air still accompanied this region….
Cold air pierced my skin.. Indeed, we should not go out of the house, because the state of the empty house is a good place for this cold air.
The cassava that we had approached with the furnace was ripe, the fire from the furnace was maturing the state of the cassava, the land that enveloped the cassava could already be cleaned, he said, so that we can go straight without clearing the land first.
By late afternoon, we remained inside the house with the furnace still burning.
“About Novi and the others how is Wil, I was curious about them”
“Mbuh Tif, let it be. It was their decision to leave here, and save themselves each”.
The night is coming, the night is not what I like here…. Because there will be something going on here.
We were sitting next to the furnace of fire that I never extinguished the fire. Next to the furnace there was still a cassava that we had not eaten, there was also a pot filled with water, rain water boiled for our drinking water.
“Wil.. I kebelet ngising c*k”
“Iya Tif.. Uh how do we wait till morning or how is Tif?”
“Gak can Wil.. I wis not strong, uh there is a leftover crackle bag not in your backpack Wil?”
“Ndak no Tif.. uh gini ae you know.. Ngising in front of the house, on the ground.. Eh make a hole in the ground later nek wis full of taimu, that hole you close the pack of soil”
