Blood In the Ancestral Land
Chapter 12
The curse that robs happiness. Sadness will continue without forgiveness. The magic-magic tried to eliminate but nothing worked.
Princess Alundra was carried by the eunuch companion of the king to the middle of the forest very far from the Palace. The king ordered to kill her and pretended to bring a fake daughter in exchange for another daughter who lived in the village.
The eunuch rode on the king's horse in a large black robe covering the baby in a cradle with cloth on the front. There was a sword he had prepared behind his back. Arriving at the forest, the eunuch prepared to swing a sword. Seeing his compassionate gaze made him not have the heart to kill him. His sparkling eyes, crying melt the more burdensome the eunuch. His hand was limp, the sword slipped out of his hand.
“How can I kill this poor boy?” muttered the eunuch.
He just left the baby. Along the way the eunuch's heart is not calm instead of the baby being a savage animal meal. He turned towards the forest towards where the baby he had left had been. Seeing the baby sobbing in tears, the eunuch wrapped his cold body in his robe.
“Where should I leave this baby quietly?”
A beam of fireballs lit up before him, as he approached. The fireball split into flying fireflies. The firefly seemed to lead him to open the road to a small hut there was a well in front of him.
“I hope the residents of this house will accept princess Alundra”
Outside the house there was a dim light, a crow flying. As he was about to knock on the door, an old woman appeared from behind the door glaring at him. He watched the baby in the cradle. The eunuch was uncomfortable moving one step backward.
“What is the need until a palace official comes here?” he said hoarse voice.
“Nek, I want to ask you to leave this child until he grows up” he replied a little scared.
“Hahaha, I heard the news. She is a baby who was cursed by the black-scored queen”
“Yes, you are absolutely right. Are you willing to take care of her and raise her?”
“What do I get in return?”
“I'll give you my entire treasure. This baby survived."
“Ahahah, treasure alone is not enough. Bring me three Garuda feathers. The MangkuBuana ancestral land heritage animal! I know the king hid it somewhere”
“But, it's not easy to get it. The king does not allow anyone to enter sana”
“Then you quickly go and take this baby! before I change my mind to eat it!”
Seeing the woman, the eunuch thought twice about leaving the princess. He also had no other choice but to resign so that the old woman kept the promise even after getting what she asked for his life was on the edge.
“I'll be waiting for you. If you do not return then this child remains a skull. Ahahah.”
He tucked the Wanua Ubun government identification tag next to the baby. The eunuch left him with anxious expectation. While the old woman had intended to cook Alundra's baby's heart for the magic potion . But as she prepared to stab her heart, she suddenly felt sorry for the baby. He threw a knife on the ground and then hit his own head.
“Why can't I finish him?”
Baby Alundra sobbed sobbing, he was so thirsty and cold.
“Hey be quiet little monster!” the old woman slammed the door.
He went out of the house waiting for the baby's cry to subside by itself. The queen's messenger Diajeng, one of the ravens' stealth spies saw the baby. The beautiful baby's face was full of compassion. The cry of the baby did not stop, his face full of tears. He gave up the intention of telling the queen. The demon flew to one of the trees that filled with flowering plants. He pulled a flower that was filled with fresh-scented pistils. From the window, he gave a flower dripping in his mouth. The baby who was very thirsty, spent the juice of sweet and fresh pistils.
Alundra's baby was only ten days old, but his struggle for survival tried to gulp the pistil itself to quench thirst even though only a few sips of the flower were given. After Alundra's baby stopped crying, the crow flew towards Mangkubuana's palace, telling the queen. Hearing the news, the queen smiled. He was very happy because the curse on the baby king Tumenggung went smoothly.
“I became curious about the baby” said the queen.
“O Queen Buana, she's just a helpless little baby boy. I beg you not to hurt that poor child” said the demon.
“Hahah, why are you defending her so much? I was curious to see why you were so protective of him.”
The queen Diajeng flew up the power of the ocean waves towards the princess. Behind the dark clouds, the night was silent no moonlight shone brightly in the sky. Alundra's baby was placed in a basket made of bamboo on the edge of the window. The baby appeared to be asleep, while enduring the cold. While near the fireplace, the old woman slept very well with her thick blanket. The baby Alundra squirms, unknowingly the Diajeng queen notices him full of pity by making a voice like calming him. He moved the old woman's blanket to the baby's body, put out the blazing fire in the fireplace and went back to the palace.
On a clear morning, the old woman woke up with the cold. He glanced at the window, his eyes glaring in confusion as if he could not believe his blanket was in the baby's basket.
“How can my blanket move by itself?”
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In the greatness chamber, the queen turned her staff. He thought again why he felt so sorry for the baby that he helped give her a blanket. “What really happened?” muttered.
Inside the terrible curse, there was a magic that said that the princess got compassion. It was as if the Diajeng queen had been hit by her own curse for meeting the baby. People who are already approaching even know her will be exposed to a magic chain that is copy-connecting in chains.
He promised himself that he would not meet the baby he had cursed. However, the shadow of the baby's face made him feel like meeting her in his yearning.
“This is my fault, the spell that was directed at the baby Alundra was like eating myself” said the queen.
