There is no pleasure in lost-words, and everyone wants to stay away from the path of being astray. But what about those who have no direction to go, wandering down the street without knowing where they are? Maybe that's what would be called providing experience.
No, not the experience you want to have. But luck, which you definitely want to enjoy, becomes a process towards the person you are looking for. After all, it's not important to be certain, because life is full of the unexpected.
Galigo also felt that way. From the incident that initially led to trouble, it turned into a blessing and got a place on the side that seemed to be profitable. Unless you meet a songong boy (people who have no manners) like Sandanu who sits in front of him. They and Mutia get dinner with the Ketua Suku of the Tanah Lampung.
"This is really delicious, I just ate fish dishes like this and kemplang crackers," Sandanu was very hungry.
"It's called seruit, grilled fish with chili paste and tempoyak which comes from fermented durian." The Ketua Suku kindly explained it.
"Thank you, it's an honor for us to have dinner with a Ketua Suku," said Mutia.
The Ketua Suku smiled. And with a kind heart, he forgave three young people who accidentally broke into the keraton. Hope they can help his princess who has been confined to return to the real path of life. Like social beings who gather and need other people.
During dinner Galigo remained silent. He looked around the dining room. In front of him was a long oval table. At the end of the arch sits the Ketua Suku, on the right is Mutia and on the left is Sandanu and himself.
The dining room looks more spacious. Actually there is not only one dining table but more than five and between the rooms there are wooden pillars as a support for the room whose roof looks very high. Many furniture jars of earthenware and plants as air freshener.
"Now you rest and tomorrow morning you can try to persuade my princess!" said the Ketua Suku after dinner.
"Yes, I can definitely persuade the Ketua Suku's princess to come out of her pavilion." Sandanu was sure that it was an easy task.
After dinner, the maid escorted them to the rest area. Mutia gets her own room and is escorted by a maid, while Sandanu and Galigo will stay in the same room that night.
A male servant escorted the two of them. As the light lit from the lit lamps along the terrace made Sandanu look at Galigo with suspicion. Since then, the boy did not speak and sometimes smiled mysteriously. Or perhaps, he was indeed a bad person who would steal.
Arriving at the break room, Sandanu immediately lay down on the bed. There were two beds in the room and a small lamp lit on the table as a lamp. The room they live in is not very spacious, there is a small cupboard in the corner of the room opposite the door. The walls are yellow and there are motifs that are almost the same as many buildings in the palace, the arches of young leaves of ferns.
Sandanu, who was curious about the boy who was still sitting on his bed, did nothing. He started asking, "Who are you really?"
"What you mean?" Galigo answered without turning to Sandanu.
Sandanu was still lying down and his hands were being used as cushions. "I've met many people, but not with people like you. You are mysterious."
"Mysterious?" Galigo smiled a little. The word tickled him.
"Yeah, like someone with bad intentions. If that's not true, then."
Galigo stood up. "That's right."
Sandanu sharpened his gaze. The boy walked up and out of the break room. Sandanu lifted his body and was about to follow Galigo away.
"Batu sissi' naga shines." Light emitted from the brown stone bracelet but the light didn't spread out because it was covered by his other hand. "Body lighten up." Galigo walked with a light body without making a sound despite his fast pace.
Sandanu who tried to follow him also lost track. The atmosphere of the keraton that night was very quiet. In the night sky, the stars are scattered and the crescent moon looks dim covered by clouds. The shadows of paku tiang tree (Cyatheales) growing along the side of the building swayed in the wind. The sound of the water gurgling in the pool was very rhythmic along with the sound of an owl echoing out of nowhere.
"Where did the boy go?" Sandanu stepped in search of Galigo.
Galigo smiled mysteriously behind Sandanu. He hides and is unknown as Sandanu walks near him. Galigo's footsteps were not heard and he walked like very light air.
And the goal, Galigo with a sense of luck can enter the keraton of the Ketua Suku and this is the first time to enter a keraton. Luck that would give him a lot of treasure. Galigo is a thief.
He knew where he had to go, none other than the barn, the hoard of treasure. Even the boy who followed him did not know of his whereabouts and he could protect the guards with his mantra. "Batu sissi' naga shines, the air dissipates." Then the whole keraton all fell asleep.
The situation is getting quieter as if there is no life in the keraton. Galigo was sure, the boy who followed him fell asleep too and his body collapsed in the middle of the road. It's time for the heist plan to begin, and escape with a satisfying loot. But it turned out to be not as easy as he thought. When Galigo was about to enter the barn, he was caught by someone. He was patted on the back.
"What would you do?" Sandanu was already standing behind him.
Galigo was shocked to see him. "You, how can you follow me?"
"It turns out that you are indeed a thief and cast a sleep mantra on everyone," Sandanu growled at him. "I won't let you do it."
"Oh yes! Then do it, no one will wake up from my mantra. Except, somehow you can?" Galigo smiled sarcastically.
Sandanu didn't know the reason why he was able to escape Galigo's sleep mantra. But, he also didn't know how to wake up all the keraton soldiers. "Damn…" Sandanu immediately attacked him.
They quarreled and the quarrel walked to the center of the courtyard under the star-studded night sky. No one heard their commotion, because everyone was stabbed, except for her who locked herself in her pavilion.
***
Feeling strange that night, Putri Way Gambas got up from his bed. She stood looking out the window. The sky was so calm and the air seemed to be in harmony with that calm. There was no sound of either people talking, or the footsteps of the keraton soldiers who were on guard at night.
There is something strange. Putri Way Gambas stepped out of his room in his warm sheepskin pajamas. It was found that the guard was asleep outside his room. Tried to wake him up, but they were so sound asleep they seemed to be unconscious. Something bad has happened. Worry was also present, leading him to want to find out what had actually happened.
For three years, that night Putri Way Gambas came out of her pavilion to make sure that something bad had happened in the keraton. She walked around on foot until she saw a light shining. Batu akik light and there is a fight from the origin of that light. Immediately, she headed towards the light.
It was true what she had been worried about. The two boys are still in the keraton and they made the keraton danger tonight. But how can they be free, shouldn't the judge have given the sentence and they should be imprisoned? Putri Way Gambas did not know her father's decision to give a punishment that was far beneficial to herself.
"Stop it, what are you guys doing?" Way Gambas replaced them.
"You, how did you get outside?" Sandanu looked at the princess who she said always shut up. "You might not be able to use the thief's sleep mantra either."
"Thief?" Way Gambas looked at Galigo.
Galigo tries to run away, but Sandanu grabs his hand and prevents him from escaping.
"Why were you released?" Putri Way Gambas approached them.
Sandanu grabbed Galigo's hand. The boy didn't speak at all, just trying to get away. Everything became very chaotic and messy. The plan failed miserably, moreover the princess was not able to work by the mantra.
The beautiful princess sharpened her eyes to observe the person in front of her. "So you were the one who put everyone to sleep, even my father was hit by your mantra, who exactly are you?" Way Gambas is curious about Galigo.
Galigo turned his face away and he didn't care at all. Sandanu let go of her hand and he tidied hisself up. It seems that Sandanu felt something odd about him too. Who's he?
Galigo felt confused to answer who he was. There is no inherent identity for people who do not know the direction of their life goals. Do not understand the meaning of struggle and all float like air.
All this time, he was a thief and to be honest he didn't even enjoy the loot. He steals for the poor, he just doesn't want to see people suffer because the world is unfair. Poor people always do not have proper rights in life.
"You don't need to know who I am." Galigo will leave the keraton.
He was afraid when someone asked him, 'who'. The fear made him helpless, there was pain without a wound and the pain ran through his body. Like being gnawed until there is no longer any strength that makes him able to survive, except to escape.
Sandanu was suspicious from the start. His mysterious smile, the look in his eyes that was hiding something, there was indeed something that Sandanu wanted to know from Galigo. But what should he do, as if there is pity for him. But also, the boy had bad intentions and made a mistake.
"Wait!" Putri Way Gambas prevents Galigo. Her hands were raised forward. "You can't just walk away."
Suddenly, the princess who had kept herself locked up did something unexpected. "The will from the heart, radiates to the holy intention, in eliminating the feeling of loneliness, all doubts will go away," Putri Way Gambas clasped his palms together in front of his chest until a bright light appeared. "Batu mutiara embun pagi, please wake them up from their dreams."
Putri Way Gambas raised her hand, light flashed in the air along with the emergence of sastra lyrics in the form of aksara kaganga that coiled like a disk floating in the air and spread out. Then, a drop of dew fell and everyone woke up. The commotion that ensued made people wonder. Galigo was astonished to see the power of controlling the batu akik that could thwart his mantra. And what it does is not a mantra.
"Guards, arrest that person," shouted Putri Way Gambas.
The guards who had just woken up were confused, but they were able to catch Galigo who felt himself unable to escape. Sandanu himself was still watching the princess who looked exhausted after performing a different and extraordinary batu akik control technique, he was sure it wasn't a mantra.
"You, what happened?" Sandanu approaches the princess.
Putri Way Gambas felt like she was losing her strength, her body was very weak and she could no longer hold on. "I…." Her body fell unconscious.
"Help!" Sandanu shouted while lifting Putri Way Gambas. "Show me the princess pavilion and summon a healer right now"
A keraton guard ran. "Fine, just follow." And others are looking for a healer.
Sandanu runs to take her and is worried that something will happen to princess as she sees strange handling of batu akik. In Putri Way Gambas's shining hand, the batu akik cracked and shattered as her hand flew into the air. A jewel can die if the batu akik it has is broken. Sandanu also saw that there was no batu akik on the princess when she approached Putri Way Gambas.
Galigo was astonished to see the panic that occurred. It was his fault that someone sacrificed her life to thwart his sleep mantra, even though the mantra would disappear when the sun rose. Galigo wanted to see how the princess was, but the keraton guards took him to prison. []