Dwarf
56. The Death of Baby Ria
Ria tidied her hair, combed it slowly with her fingers and tied it with rubber. He stood quietly looking at his face in the mirror on the surface of the door of his closet.
Not long ago Ria stepped towards her little baby who today has passed the family thanksgiving day and was welcomed happily by everyone who came from various places.
Ria sat on the edge of the mattress smilingly looking at her tiny baby who tonight did not cry a bit.
"Why doesn't our child ever cry?" ask Sae who is now changing her clothes in front of the closet.
Ria turned around and said, "Maybe she's tired after passing this day."
Sae said nothing. Ria looked at her baby. Perhaps, this baby was tired so he never cried.
Ria touched her baby's cold cheeks making both of Ria's eyes round in surprise.
"Huh!!!" Shocked Ria then immediately pulled her hand.
Ria now felt that her heart had stopped beating in this very second. What happened to the baby.
Ria took a sip of her saliva with her lips that had now trembled. She moved her hand again and touched her baby's cheek which was the true sensation she could still feel.
Both of Ria's eyes blurred. Her hands now extended towards her baby's feet wrapped in batik cloth. The same cloth he used.
Ria shook her baby's body which felt stiff even the baby did not move or respond to a touch he gave.
"Babyiiiiiiiouuuuuu!!!" ria's cry that was so hysterical made Sae who was now sitting on the edge of the mattress immediately turned her head.
"What's wrong?" asked Sae who was so very surprised.
"Baby kitaaaaa, Daeng!!!" hysterical shouting.
Ria turned around while holding her now stiff baby with a pale looking body.
"Don't just talk to you, Ria!!!" scribbled.
"I don't just speak, Daeng. Look!!! Our baby is cold and not crying anymore!!!"
"Our baby is not breathing anymore, daeng!!!" she cried with tears that had flowed down her cheeks.
Hearing that makes Sae quickly touch her baby's cheek which makes her believe. What Ria said was true. The baby is cold.
Sae's two rounded eyes looked at his wife who was now crying as she pleased. Not long after Sar returned to look at the baby, he grabbed his nose and neck hoping he got signs of life there.
"How, daeng?"
Sae's chest instantly became claustrophobic. His two eyes that had been staring at his baby were now looking back at his wife who had become anxious.
"Daengs? How's it?"
No answer, Sae looks only speechless with a face that looks flat without expression.
"Brake!!! Quick answer!!!"
"Why are you quiet, daeng?!!"
"Reply answer my question!!!" his angry screams were already at the tip of the horn.
"Our baby"
"Why our baby?"
"Our baby is gone" replied Sae.
Instantly the woman who had been feeling very happy because she had got one new small member was now stunned.
"What?" the whisper couldn't believe it.
Sae nodded forcefully and was very heavy-hearted.
"Our baby, our son is gone, Ria."
Ria bit her lips then she looked down at the face of her tiny baby who had completely turned pale.
"No! Nah! My son cannot die!!!"
"My son can't die!!!"
"No way!!!" shouted Ria.
"Yahoooo!!!"
Ria hugged the body of her little baby who was only 7 days old. Ria never expected that the baby she had hoped to grow up and become the hero of her life would leave so soon.
"My son can't die!!!"
"No way!!!"
"Why did you leave Indo so soon, son?"
"Why so fast?"
"It's too fast for Indo, son!!!" shouted Ria who was now crying as she pleased.
Bakri who was in the living room while playing with several toy cars now immediately stopped his play and ran towards the room after hearing the cry of Indonya.
Bakri stopped his run. He stood at the entrance of the room with his cheek on which he rested on the surface of the entrance.
"How can our baby die like that?" ask Sae who is now seen sitting on the edge of the bed.
"I don't know either, Daeng."
Hearing this made Bakri surprised. He did not mishear what his parents said. Did his new brother die like he heard?
"Indo!" said Bakri who immediately ran over to Ria who immediately greeted Bakri with tears and hugs.
"Bakri, your sister is dead, son," he said.
"Why with the new sister, Indo? Why would a new brother die?"
Bruaks
The two people who looked at each other immediately turned to look at Sae who had now risen from the edge of the mattress after hitting the bed.
"Why can our child die?!!"
"Well?!!"
"You didn't give it asi?!!"
Ria shakes. "I gave it to him, daeng. How could I not give it to her."
"Then what caused my son to die?!!"
Ria nodded back. She also did not know why the baby would die.
"I don't know either, daeng!!!" ria screams while occasionally stroking her baby's head while Bakri now has joined in crying while hugging her body.
The mood is now quiet. All that was heard was a sobbing from Ria and Bakri. While on one side now Sae turned her head, she looked at Ria who was still crying.
"Is it possible for our baby to be eaten by a ditch?"
The question managed to make Ria stop her crying. His two red eyes turned to look at Sae who looked at him so very seriously.
"Parakang?" ria asked in an almost inaudible voice.
"Maybe, you-you must know, there are many guests who come and maybe there are guests who turned out to be creatures in the form of Parakang."
"It's possible that one of our guests is Parakang and he has brought our baby's delicate spirit when he sees our baby."
Ria was silent now. His mind now only remembers the incident when the Thanksgiving event took place. Who and how the guests came.
Sae approaching. He knelt before his wife who was seen closing his eyes with a forehead that looked wrinkled.
"Try to remember again!"
"Maybe you suspect someone who has eaten the spirit of our son."
Ria was still silent.
"We have to hurry, we have to quickly find out the guy if we need to burn him alive."
"I won't let the man who killed my son live freely in the village even in this world."
"Quick Ria!!!" snapping Sae made both of Ria's eyes wide open.
"Daeng," he said with a face that looked pale.
"What's wrong? Do you know who?"
"Sa-sambe," he stammered.
"Sambe?"