Ayse's POV
After the purification ritual was over, the next day after that, the girls give Ayse a long white dress with floral lace motifs on the skirt. Not only dresses, they will put a crown wrapped in pure gold and shiny blue gems on it on her head, as well as a fairly thick makeup with pink lipstick. Even though it looks elegant, it is actually layered.
"What kind of gem is this?" Ayse asked while looking at a blue gem on the crown that would be placed on top of her head.
"A gem from heaven," one of the them who still holding Ayse's hair in a bun, replied.
Ayse stunned by the beauty of the blue gem.
How come?
The gem really emits a beautiful light when reflected by a lamp or sunlight. As a result, the gem changed color to light purple from its original color.
After her hair is neatly tied up, the crown is placed on top of Ayse's head with great care by two of them. Although the gold crown is large and many trinkets around it. However, it did not have a heavy effect on her head.
"What a beautiful goddess!" she praised to Ayse.
Ayse smiled.
She cannot believe the sight of herself in the mirror in front of her. She touch her face with one of her fingers which is covered in a mandala-patterned red ink painting. She looks more mature now.
"Myself…," she whispered. "… different."
"Done!" she said. "Please go straight to the throne because the morning ritual will be start."
"Okay," Ayse said simply.
Escorted by beautiful girls around her, in transparent white high heels stepped into the main hall of the Heavenly Temple where the throne waiting for her. Because Ayse is not used to wearing high heels, she walk slowly.
A spacious room with large circular windows with floral motifs on the left and right near the throne. The cold floor tiles, finally defeated by the warm glow of the sun's rays from the gap in the window.
Arriving there, Ayse occupied the seat of the throne immediately.
"Is this what it feels like to sit on a throne …," she thought.
All her life, she had only seen this chair on television and comics. It is like in dreamland to be here.
"Ngg—" Ayse suddenly forgot the words she wanted to ask one of the girls standing next to her.
A girl turned to Ayse with a confused face immediately. "What happen?"
"I would like to ask, how long I have to sitting on this throne?"
"After the dusk ritual," she answered with a friendly smile on her face.
"Dusk ritual??" Ayse asked frowning. "You mean I've to sitting here for hours?"
The girl nodded confidently. "Yes."
"Forreal?!" Ayse thought suprised.
"Can I walk here to there to stretch my muscles?" Ayse asked again.
"You can't," she replied. "You must sit on this throne until the dusk ritual is over."
"I see …," Ayse sighed. Her gaze shifted from the girl. She looked back at the front where the majestic big maroon door far in front of her.
10 minutes,
30 minues,
1 hour,
1 hour 30 minutes,
Her vision is blurry because of the
drowsiness. In the midst of silence and there is no activity other than sitting like this, creates a feeling of boredom that surrounds her soul.
"How long am I here just staring at that door?" she muttered.
Her right hand supports her head on the side of the throne. She yawned more and more often until tears rolled down from her eyelids. Not crying, but sleepy.
Suddenly Ayse's eyes to a girl like the girls beside her. She standing near the big door. Her long brown-haired fell in the wind. Her white dress and has a shawl on the side of her waist like the others. Suddenly she smiled mysteriously with a sharp gaze to Ayse. Suddenly the drowsiness disappear after getting the figure of the mysterious girl. Ayse rose from her throne. However, the girl beside her blocked her actions by approaching Ayse. Her hands touching Ayse's shoulders.
"You can't move from your throne," she said firmly.
Her form blocked Ayse's view of a mysterious girl with long-flowing-brown-haired.
"Did you saw a girl with long brown-haired near the door just now?"
The girl glanced at the door briefly. Now, a mysterious girl's disappeared instantly.
"What the …," Ayse suprised.
Then, the bun girl turned back to Ayse with a smile. "There's no one there. Also, as guardians of the Heavenly Temple, all the girls are required to put their hair in a bun. Nothing is flowing."
"Ah, she's right. The girls here are in a bun. There's no one of them has flowing hair," Ayse thought. "B–but, who is she?"
"Calm down. King Dante and Queen Wima will come to here soon," she continued. Her words managed to break Ayse's daydream which was still haunted by a mysterious girl's figure.
Suddenly King Dante and Queen Wima along with their soldiers in the form of bottles of mineral water came in, through the big maroon door. Instantly the sunlight is very blinding from the direction of the door that opened. However, the effect of the glare faded slowly as Ayse's gaze begin to adjust to it.
King Dante and Queen Wima along with the other mineral water bottle soldiers, prostrated themselves in front of Ayse immediately for a minute.
"Goddess Lara, we all need your miracle to create a safe and comfortable world," King Dante said. "Please grant our request.
"For Goddess Lara, the Savior of the World and the Universe."
"For Goddess Lara, the Savior of the World and the Universe!" all soldiers said, follow the words that King Dante said.
Ayse silently stared at all the glass creatures and mineral water bottles in front of her now. Such a strange sight.
Not long after, King Dante and Queen Wima rose from their prostration position, followed by the other soldiers.
"Goddess Lara," Queen Wima said, in the shape of a slender Weizenbier glass. "It was beyond my imagination that finally I be able to see what you looked like after all this time.
"You are very charming!"
Ayse smiled. Then said, "Thank you."
After the morning ritual is complete. Then, it is followed by singing prayer. They were singing happily while worshiping Ayse as Goddess Lara. Because Ayse do not know about their singing, so she keep silent.
"… Goddess Lara, lead us to the right path — the war path protected by you.
"Potio Nation, A Victory Nation."
Such is the snippet of the lyrics.
Unknowingly, it turns out that this ritual has been going on for six hours. The sun will soon disappear, replaced by moonlight. The clear sky slowly turned orange and then dark. Ayse's stomach and waist were already sore and hungry, she tried to hold it until the closing ritual.
"For Goddess Lara," Queen Wima suddenly give a wicker basket and placed it, near Ayse's feet.
"What is that?" Ayse asked curiously.
"Peas and seaweed liquid," Queen Wima answered.
"That's all how can my stomach be full?!" she thought annoyed.
Ayse sighed slowly. "Alright, thank you."
"My pleasure, Goddess Lara," Queen Wima said.
After that, all of them gradually walk out of the room. Instantly silence enveloping again. The girl beside Ayse swiftly take the wicker basket that Queen Wima had given her. When the contents were removed, it turned out to a large woven bowl filled with peas that had been boiled in large quantities and seaweed liquid — inside a round transparent mask — in another woven bowl. Of course, in large quantities too.
The girls brought the table with the three-layered glass placemats. They poured the peas in the first and third layers immediately. Then seaweed liquid in the second layer.
"Enjoy!" The girl said.
Ayse just replied to them with a smile.
One by one, she take the peas. It turns out that this is not bad as a stomach booster. She really enjoy the peas and seaweed liquid. The liquid is a substitute for fluids in her body which has been dehydrated today.
Regarding the mysterious girl, suddenly she appears inside Ayse's head when the atmosphere begin to quiet again.
"Where is she?" she thought curiously.