In the car, on their way to the grocery store t
hey're chatting with each other but, as they're passing through the Hooting Forest, Siren suddenly become silent as she remembered what she saw during the day.
Mayr: Are you okay, Siren?
Siren: er-I-I am okay 😅
Mayr: Don't tell me you are scared going out at night? 🤭
Siren: (shake her head) N-No. It's not about that. Mayr: hm?
Siren: I-It's about the Hooting Forest.
Rein: Did something happen to you, Siren?
Siren tell them what was happen to her.
Rein: And Cair didn't belief in you?
Siren: Yes. He's teasing me for seing things because he assumed I am tired.
Mayr: Well, actually there's some stories that I heard before about that spooky, Hooting Forest. But, I'm not sure if it is true or not.
Rein: You are going to tell us, now?
Mayr: Well,- i think it's better if i tell you the story after dinner. We'll meet at Siren's room.
All three of them agreed and proceed with the shopping. Once done, they're going home. On the way home, the roads are not too clear because of the lighting, the road lamp are so dim. However, Siren saw a glimpse of someone wearing a black hood cape again standing besides one of the trees. Siren froze again and become silent. She's pretending that she saw nothing. Both Rein and Mayr silent as well. Siren is wondering whether both of them saw the same thing that she saw just now. Siren didn't find the urge to ask them at that time. So, she just keep quiet until they reach home.
Once arrived, Cair and Klein help to carry the groceries into the house and cook the dinner. Delicious beef spicy stew and caramalize honey fried chicken.
Siren: You are so good at cooking, Klein. Your foods is like my mom's cooking. The best in the world. 😋
Mayr: Agree(2x) nyam 😋
Klein: Well, thank you.
Cair interrupt.
Cair: (Jealous) Wait a minute. How about me? I'd also do the cooking?
Siren: yeah(2x) You are just helping out, a bit here and there 😏
Cair: Hey, I am not. I was the one who threw all the spices into the delicious beef spicy soup.
Siren: Let me taste the soup again. Oh my?!
Cair: Wha-What?
Siren: This must be the part where you throw all the spices. It taste a bit tacky 😜
Cair: Siren, you cheeky brat (piss off)
Everyone is laughing at Cair because of getting teased by Siren. Suddenly, Siren feels tingling like someone watching her from outside of the window but, when she is turning her head towards the window there's nothing outside. Rein touch Siren shoulder gently.
Rein: Are you okay , Siren?
Siren: ah-er..Y-Yes 😅
Siren become more uncomfortable since she saw someone standing besides the tree in the Hooting Forest.
After dinner Cair going back to his own house at Rosewood town located near the Hooting town while Klein and Grandma Neir rest in their own bedroom.
The ladies, gather at Siren bedroom to hear about the story of the Hooting Forest from Mayr.
Mayr: Okay, let's start.
Siren: Before we start, can i ask something?
Mayr: yes?
Siren: Did you two. erm..maybe-saw a glimpse of someone wearing a black hood cape standing besides the tree in the Hooting Forest on the way home?
Mayr: er- I-didn't saw anything, Siren.
Rein: Me neither.
Siren: R-Really (feeling scared 😣)
Mayr: Don't be scared, Siren. I don't think it's a ghost that scare people. There's a lot of rumors about the forest spirits lived in the Hooting Forest.
Siren: Forest spirit?
Mayr: Yes. It'll appear in many forms. Sometimes it looks like a human but, they're not.
Rein: Is it bad? The forest spirits?
Mayr: hm..I wouldn't say they're bad but, they're not good either. They like to play around, that's why sometimes they'll appear and show themselves to us. But you can never let them stick around you. It is because humans and spirits can never live together. We lived in a different world compare to the spirits.
Siren: I-I see.
Rein: Well, Mayr you do know a lot of things about this. 😏
Mayr: (chuckle) hehe 😆 because i loved to read about supernatural beings. For example, the Hooting Forest. This place is called the Hooting town because of the hooting sounds coming from the owls who lived in the Hooting Forest. Every night we can hear the hooting sounds from the forest.
Suddenly, the ladies surprise by the-