The question was… How am I supposed to find this girl?
I didn't even know if she was in Indonesia. No, I didn't even know if she was REAL. Gilgamesh never told me where she was, I didn't have any clue to find her at all. It seemed so impossible to find her. I hadn't even started at all but I already gave up. I had been searching for a girl named Kaylie Maddison on social media and the internet since last night, but the result was Zero. I mean there were a bunch of girls that had such a name in this world, how the heck should I know which one was her???
I even searched for her at my University, well technically not every side of the school. I mean come on, how do you search for one girl among the four thousand female students at my University? I am not going to ask every single one of them. It sounds stupid, beside I don't want people call me "the stalker of Brahma University".
Anyway, after that school day, I decided to treat myself to a little bit of burger at "Monster Burger". Because it's the only burger restaurant that offers a reasonable size of burger with the cheapest price. Besides, the place doesn't look bad at all.
While waiting for my order, I looked outside through the glass window. Nothing to look at the restaurant except the busy road in Jakarta city. Since the restaurant lies not far away from the school, I saw tons of students passing by among the neon lights of the city.
It always feels so chaotic and sad everytime you see Jakarta with dystopian vibes. Sure, technology is everywhere, but criminals and politics are getting messed up. The rich are getting richer and the poor… we barely survived. If only I could live where It was fifty years ago, probably I wouldn't feel the same way. Since that time it was still peaceful here.
Okay, Back to the topic,
Somehow while I looked at the city's light on the roads, there was someone catching my eyes. I saw her wearing a white dress. I couldn't see her properly since the place where I sit was kinda far away from where she was standing. However, I could feel somehow she was watching over me. When I tried to focus my eyes to look at her, the random passing by bus covered my sight toward her for a second.
And as the bus passed by, she disappeared at the same time.
I was telling myself, maybe I was just overthinking about it, or maybe I was so hungry that time. So, when I was about to choose not to think about it, suddenly a girl's voice could be heard in front of me.
Looking for me?
She scared the heck out of me, until I shouted harrrrgggh! Then she made me point a mustard bottle at her. Everyone in the restaurant was looking at me, I was aware of it and put the mustard bottle back on the table.
"Relax, I am not a threat," She said.
"Who are you?" I asked but still creeped out with her sudden appearance.
She wore a white casual dress with a long straight half up hairstyle. Her hair is brown, she has light brown eyes, not so thick eyebrows, oval face shape, turned up nose and a heart shaped lips. I could tell her body is athletic and fit, and shorter than me by ten centimeters.
"I am Kaylie Maddison," She said. "Call me K instead."
"Kaylie Maddison?" I said.
I was disbelieving with what I saw, not because of how she suddenly appeared and how she looks, but because among all the places to jump scare me... Why in this burger restaurant?
"I know… I know, I am sorry to scare you." she said. " I wasn't mean to."
Her voice sounds chill and soft…
"Aren't you the girl whom I just saw a minute ago?" I said.
"Yup, you got it right Z." She smiled nicely at me.
"Wait," I was confused. "How… How did you get here so fast? The distance is kind of far for a minute to travel over here."
"Let's just say you stare at the window too long." She said
"Right…" I still showed my question mark facial expression while agreeing with her.
"And how did you know my nickname is Z?" I asked her again.
"Remember when Gilgamesh appeared in your dream last night?" She asked me back.
"Yeah…" I answered. "Wait what? You know my dream?"
"I was the one doing the telepathic communication between you and Gilgamesh." She said,
"Are you telling me that was not a dream? Instead it was a telepathic conversation?" I asked.
"That is right Z." She smiled at me. "I connected you with him, I saw your memories and I found out your nickname is Z.
"Why does it sound so creepy to me?" I said.
"Don't worry about it Z," Kaylie said. "I didn't look deeper into your private memories."
I was speechless when she told me about that, no comment.
"Gilgamesh wanted to meet you now," She said. " We need to meet him immediately."
" Wait, my food hasn't come yet." I said.
"There is no time, '' Kaylie rushed me. "We need to go NOW."
"Why are you rushing me?" I complained to her. "At least let me have a bite."
"The four big empires are coming, we need to prepare for the war." She grabbed my right wrist and pulled me from my chair.
''Wait what???" I was shocked.
"Z, we will explain it to you when we meet Gilgamesh." She rushed me even more. "Let's go now before they notice us."
"They had spies here, let's go NOW." She raised her voice.
"Okay, Okay…" I said, obviously I was a little bit upset. I don't even know what she meant about the four empires.
I left the money for my orders on the table just to make sure when I am going back there, the chef and the waitress were not furious about my abandoned orders.
We took about thirty minutes from the restaurant to the house in the suburb west of Jakarta, the house looked pretty normal for me. Based on the house design it looked like a minimalist modern style with plenty of Sumerian cuneiform . Not to be confused with the Egyptian hieroglyphics, Sumerian cuneiform style of writing that represented syllables only, including vowels. On the other hand, Egyptian hieroglyphs represented consonants. What's bizarre about cuneiform was, although it started with picture writing, the Sumerian cuneiform quickly evolved into abstract shapes from time to time. While hieroglyphs remained as a picture throughout the time of history.
By the time we arrived at the gate, I couldn't do anything but stare at the house full of cuneiforms all over the wall. I ended up saying,' So this is the house of Gilgamesh…'
She brought me inside the house, nothing extraordinary about the house. Except those cuneiform writing all over the wall.
Follow me, she said.
I followed her to the corner right of the living room where I saw a big sculpture statue in the form of a full body of Gilgamesh. I could see a writing on the statue stands with words, "In the memory of Gilgamesh the greatest king of Sumeria". The statue was designed pretty cool, it showed that Gilgamesh fought a creature with a lion head with human upper body, snake tail and dragon feet. Judging how shiny the statue was, I could tell the statue made from marbles.
"Z, are you done staring at the statue?" She ruined my appreciation for the statue.
"Yeah, sorry... " I apologized.
She opened a secret door beside the statue. This secret door lies beyond the wall. I assumed no one knew about the door because the door itself was disguised as a wall. The way she opened it was strange, she touched the wall with her right hands and suddenly the wall started to glow with yellow lights surrounding her hand then disappeared like a hologram.
I was having mixed feelings while I walked beyond this secret door with a narrow path that looked like a small path that led you to a tomb on Halloween , I mean… how am I supposed to feel? I realized everything was real, Gilgamesh was waiting for me beyond the door.