The first thing that comes to my mind is that my parents are already giving up and are tired of dealing with me so they throw me somewhere far away while I'm sleeping. To be honest, if that's true then I'm in a deep pinch right now. Because the environment around me is very poor like I'm a beggar. Even the wall around me is using wooden materials.
Oi, d*mn old man do you really throw me to some third-world country?
But the more I think about it the more ridiculous it becomes. Because all I know is my parents don't have that kind of power, at least financially. And this room is so weird that it doesn't have any sense of modernity in it. The bed is hard, everything is made from wood, and I don't see any electronic appliances here.
There's nothing notable inside this room that I decided to stand up and get out of this room. Even the wooden door is so simple without a lock and you can't even close it tightly. I feel that this place is just some run-down shack or hut.
When I open the door I only found a simple living room. Everything is still made from wood. There's a medium-sized round table at the centre. I also see a simple area at the corner that seemed like a kitchen without any touch of modernity in it. And besides my room, there's another room with the exact same door. There's also a slightly bigger door at the centre of the wall between my room and kitchen there.
"It's dark here", I said as this place was devoid of any source of light.
Seeing this wood-driven place without any touch of modernity in it makes me feel weird and fearful at the same time. As I know that without any help from modern technology my life will be hard. Not to mention how I survive this kind of lifestyle with the skills that I have.
I walk to reach the door that feels like the main door that will lead me outside this place. What awaits me on the other side is just a small yard and darkness. It's nighttime right now and I don't see any source of light except the moon in the sky.
When I walk for a bit, I realise that I'm stepping on the soil outside without any footwear. And when I look back to the place that I've been into, all I see is indeed a bit run-down shack. There's a fence around the yard and a gateless gate just parallel to the shack door. My instinct is telling me to keep on walking to see something beyond this yard. But before I do that, I hear a shout from behind.
"what're you doing ?"
I turn around just to see some old man in a crude and simple cloth glaring at me. I don't know this old man and I don't know why he's glaring at me like that. I feel so agitated right now because not only don't know who this old man is, but I also don't know where am I and why I woke up from the same place as him.
Seeing my agitation and confusion, the old man sigh
"sigh... just come inside for now"
I am so confused right now that I follow him inside the house.
Just when I get inside, I also found a new person that I've also yet to see before and it was an old woman with worry on her face. The living room seems brighter than before as I see there's a tool on top of the table capable of producing lights. I don't know how it works as I have never seen that kind of tool before. All I know is this tool may be the most expensive tool inside this run-down shack.
"Why are you staring at the magic lamp like a fool?", Said the old man as he sit on a chair beside the table.
Oops, I'm kind of distracted here. But this tool here is named magic lamp? magic as in those magic really?
"Dear just give it a rest already", Said the woman with still worry on her face to the old man.
"Sigh... when I hear people outside I worry that there's a thief or a wild beast as it's rare for you to wake up earlier than us. What makes you wake this early kid?"
Many questions filled my head right now. Because this elderly couple speaks as if they know me for so long already. And why are they calling me kid like I'm their kid? I was in deep confusion so I just keep silent for now.
"Why are you so quiet now? are you still angry about yesterday? listen, I do that for your own good. I don't want you to be so disappointed later on. Reality can be so harsh and I do that to wake you up from the illusion that you too can be a great magician. For common people like us, let alone magic education, just normal education is already impossible for us to get."
Hearing his words didn't clear any confusion that I have, as it even makes me more confused than before. Magician? magic education? am I dreaming right now?
"Sigh... don't cry fool. Someday you will thank me for this", as he stands up stares at his wife and says "Now please get ready to work as you've already waked up, we'll go soon"
I was frowning so hard just now that these two elderly think that I'm starting to cry. I can't blame them though, as there are so many things for me to process here. So I just stood still there as these two elderly couples start to mind their own business.
The old lady seems like using the kitchen to cook something and the old man gets into his room. I don't know what would become of me from now on as all I can see is that there's no way I can get my past habit here.