My Family's Gift
The Book of the Dead

"Liam..follow what I'm going to say" said afif.

"Good.

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I closed my eyes and obeyed afif's instructions, he began to read the words that I also followed, after which he asked me to take a deep breath and hold it... Not long after....

"huh. is that me?" said I was so surprised.

I was standing right behind myself, I saw my body sitting with the afif hand.

"She. we made it. We better go to the beach immediately". said the afif who was beside me.

I was quite confused by the situation, as this was my first experience, performing a ritual like this.

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Short story.. We both arrived at the edge of Padang Galak beach, visible waves that are big enough, with winds so strong, that coconut trees around the beach side swayed... but I didn't feel the wind blowing, I don't know what the reason was. Maybe because I left my body.

"Then what should we do now?" ask me.

"we just wait, because honestly I don't know what to do after her.

We both just kept quiet and waited, looking in different directions, hoping to get a clue. And about 10 minutes we waited, seen a bald woman without clothes, walked casually out of the water and approached us..

"Who among you is Liam".

I was quite surprised by his voice, the voice he let out was not a female voice, but a male voice. And when he spoke, his mouth did not move at all, as if he were speaking directly into my mind.

"I... How do you know my name?" ask me confused.

"The mix is waiting for you. Follow me" said the woman.

"Wait... I brought a friend to accompany me, can he come with me?".

"I was only ordered to pick up a human named Liam... ". with a face so flat.

"in that case, I will tell your master when we get there.

"It's up to you.

Then I and his afif followed him who walked back into the sea water, had a feeling of doubt in my mind, can I breathe in there? or what's down there? is this a trap?. In the midst of my doubts, Afif patted me on the shoulder and smiled, like telling me that everything was going to be fine.

Slowly my body began to sink, but I realized there was something unusual, that my body was unaffected by the waves of water, like a big rock that does not wash away in waves or floating in the water.

Then finally my body was completely covered by water, and again..I was surprised, I can breathe and not feel crowded..but wait...do I really breathe? I put my hand in front of my own nose to confirm my breath, but strangely, my body naturally did breathe and I felt it, and I felt it, but my hands did not feel any blowing or any air in my nose.

We walked quite a distance, it might have been 5-10 minutes to follow the strange woman, the deeper we entered the sea, the darker and darker the light became.. I began to no longer see the light of the moon, which was like being swallowed up by its dark sea floor. But not long after, I saw an orange light, the woman walked towards the light and we followed her. The greater the light, the more clearly visible what is there. It is a wooden gate. But other than that door, I saw nothing else, because it was so dark.

Slowly he pushed the door, the sound of a wooden door slashed my hearing. Then a bright light awaited us behind the door, I closed my eyes because my eyes were accustomed to the darkness of the sea, what a glare.

"Welcome to our village".

How shocked I was and afif, even when I looked into afif's face, he seemed to not believe what he saw behind the door. As the genie said, the place looks like a village.We entered the door slowly, seen wooden houses with huts as the roof. I see a lot of people passing by here, like a market .. But I don't see any shops or people trading, they just walk around.

My gaze immediately focused on a house that was so big at the end of the street, golden in color... The woman invited us to walk into the house, with occasionally I accidentally clashed with people who were passing by, but even though I clashed with them like no care, and there was even a woman who had clashed with me until she fell to the ground, when I wanted to help her to stand up by reaching out her hand, as if she did not care about me at all, with a flat face, the woman just returned to walking as usual as if nothing had happened.

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When we arrived in front of a house so big and gold, the woman opened the door for us and allowed us to enter, he did not come in with us and just waited outside.When inside, I saw there were 4 pillars that were also gold, with many rooms. On each pillar has a different picture.In the first Pillar closest to us, seen a painting of a bull-bodied man who also has a horn worthy of a bull, a bull, and on the second pillar there is a painting of 2 babies who have tails and wings, hugging each other, then on the third pillar, naked as if praying towards the light above her.. The last pillar is the fourth.. I saw a painting of a dark green crocodile being ridden by a 3-eyed ape. I don't know what the meaning of the pictures, which is clear to make afif so amazed to see it.

"Welcome to my house, O descendant of Aira"

We were also surprised by the appearance of a large-bodied man, maybe his height is about 2.5 meters. With a fairly dense fur on his chest, he was bare-chested and wore black cloth pants.. With hair long enough to reach the neck.

"Well, do you know my grandmother?". asked me a little groggy.

"of course I know her. The damn woman, because of her I have to rebuild my kingdom again.but take it easy, I have no grudge against her hahahaha". he said with a voice of laughter that so echoed throughout the room..

"by the way you already know my arrival, by telling your errand boy to meet me earlier" I asked

"The serpent woman****** has informed you of your arrival here.... Then who is the man beside you?" ask her while looking at the afif.

"sorry.I invite one of my friends, who is so curious about your figure.

Then the man walked up to Afif, every step he took on the ground, sounding like a huge rock falling from a high place, even I could feel a small tremor at each step...

Tibah was he in front of afif, he immediately glared at afif with his ferocious.

"I don't like your aura".his exact words were in front of afif's face.

But the afif just smiled and also returned his gaze, like saying that he was not afraid of the man.

Then as if nothing had happened, the man walked back to his original place and sat down on a chair located right in the middle between the 4 pillars.

"Then...what do you want to ask?". he told me.

"Do you know anything about the devil in the form of a sheep, I hear that he was created not from the Fire, but from the Devil himself.

"Dasim.. his name is Dasim, legend says he is one of the 5 demons besides ifrit that will appear when the doomsday later... some even say his science has equaled the angels of God, and the only reason he is not called an angel, because he is a dissident, he was like a god of death, but unfortunately, I never met him.

"A. I have a loser-"

"sorry mixed.. I have to interrupt your conversation. because I don't want my master (he) to be angry".

"We haven't seen each other in a long time... Bile.... Now you're switching masters?". asked Dimur with a cynical smile.

"why?.. You don't like that?" said Bile who immediately approached Dimur in his chair.

"ohhh ... You want to challenge me.... again?" concluded Dampur who immediately stood up.

Then I quickly tried to calm the mood by standing between the two of them.

"quiet that we do not come here to fight.

"tell this strange-headed goat to stay away from me. or she will regret it for both times.

Then I quickly forced Bile to leave, because I did not want to make this big man go berserk, and very forced Bile also disappeared from our sight.

"You.. Have you ever met Bile before.

"Of course, she was a follower of Aira, that damn woman." said her back sitting.

"Aira...oia you said you had to rebuild your kingdom because Aira, what exactly happened?". I asked again.

"Had attacked my kingdom before, and managed to flatten my entire territory... Even he took all my possessions, because of him, I had to go back to find more human slaves to do my duty, and start all of them from scratch..." he said with a face so upset.

"Then why aren't you angry with me? my grandmother caused the destruction of your kingdom.

"I am a knight. Once lost, I will no longer argue because it will only embarrass my self-esteem.

I actually wanted to ask you again about who (he) really was, and about my family's retirement even further, but I'm sure Bile will reappear to stop me. So it's better for now that I'm holding back my curiosity.

"Afif... Is there anything you want to ask?". I said.

"hmm no. I've been very satisfied just to come here, and see what I'm seeing now.It's amazing, it's my first experience to enter the supernatural kingdom". say afif with a big smile.

"Go away if you have no more business with me, my feelings become bad after seeing the goat" he said.

"wait a minute. There's one more question I have.

I took off the pendant I was wearing and looked at it, and this is the pendant my grandmother gave me.

"Do you know anything about this?' ask me .

Then he took it and looked busy looking around from all sides.

"I'm like I've seen her, but I can't remember her, I don't know where I've seen her" she said.

"Aira gave it to me.

"Aira?..ohhh yes... I remember her, when fighting with me, I saw the woman wearing this pendant.... But honestly I do not know what this heirloom is". answer her back

"is that so.. or maybe you know where I can get information about this thing.

"From these animal symbols..I'm sure this is not an heirloom that comes from here..oia do you know a book called Lepsius?".

"Lepsius? I don't know".I'm confused.

"I've heard it, if not wrong it is a book about the Guide for the Egyptians to the afterlife, usually people at that time call it the book of the dead..." said Afif as he approached us.

"then what is the relation of the book of the dead to this thing?" ask me to dampur.

"in the book there is an ancient inscription that draws a map, to help the dead not to be strayed and will lead them to a safe path to the Baka Realm... At least that's what they believe... But what I want to mean is, like, I've seen this strange bird engraved on this heirloom with the one in the book... a bird with a snake behind it. But more than that I do not know it.

"Then where can I find the Book?".

"I don't know where he is now" he said.

Then I kept quiet for a while, I thought if it was true that the book had anything to do with this Heirloom, but if it turned out to have nothing to do with it, then I would just spend time, I would just spend time, plus I don't know where the book is right now.

And since there was nothing else I wanted to ask Dampur, me and afif permission to go home to him, not forgetting my thanks, I gave him a mustika in red, I gave him a mustika in red, I deliberately brought it to give it to him. After that, we left and went home on the same road as we came.

Long story short we both have returned to our bodies and are in the living room, Afif's house.

"do you want to find out about the book?" ask afif.

"I'm still very ill-informed".

Then Afif tried to borrow my pendant for just him to see.

"It's very heavy." said Afif.

"When I first held it I also said that, but try to put the locket on your neck.

"wah.. suddenly just so lightly, I never found an heirloom like this" said the afif with a confused face.

"preferably for now I will find information from around me first" I said.

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