Leon and Lito went to their secret place to take a dump. That gubbayas was scrumptiously delicious but they had to let it go early. The numerous amount they ate and their forgetfulness to eat their lunch combined and created that thunderous sound from their stomach, which should be properly let go.
I turned my back and felt a little bit disgusted. And I would be a pervert if I would continue to watch them taking a dump.
However, I became curious with that food. They were really happy while eating it, it looks delicious even though I don't know how delicious tastes. I went near it and allowed that yellow-orangesh small berry touch my touch. What a strange feeling to taste nothing when I watched how two people ate it deliciously. Poor me and poor them as I continue to hear their grunt in pushing to take it all out.
And really, really poor them, I hope nothing happens to them. My ears twitched when a heard tiny voices approaching me. I followed where the voices are coming from, just right then. My eyes followed leaves from the ground moving in a linear position.
Oh its them, the ₂ am-amottings .This am-amottings have the height of my thumb. They saluted me in their most disciplined way; but I just assumed that since they were tiny. I couldn't see them properly since I was standing. I was lazy enough to bend down.
They went their way marching while carrying those leaves, they might be building a new house. I can still hear the small thump of their march as they were moving away, then. They halted, they might had seen the shit right in their way and right in their territory. This is a problem. It will be Leon and Lito's problem.
Leon and Lito happily finished their business. They might had enjoyed spending their time that they forgot about the time. They rushed down the mountain, they were in hurry, they walked for about five minutes before they noticed that they had been circling around. They were in the same spot for minutes even though they knew they walked away, since they are tired already. It's even getting dark now. They are panicking now. They don't know what to do. So they decided to just kept on walking, kept on walking they are; however, they kept on coming back to the place where they took a dump.
They even started going up to the mountain but they kept on smelling back the trail of shit they popped. In a way they just kept on circling around their poop.
Lito then slowly said;
"the unseen spirits are toying us"
"you mean we are in ₁ sangot right now?" Leon asked
"Yes, we are under a spell of sangot" Lito said slowly.
I was wheezing hard when I saw Leon and Lito kept on going around their own poop and would be disappointed the moment they smelled their poop. But really it was fascinating and scary at the same time.
I heard before that stronger am-amottings can hide a person their whole life. There is just like an invisible dome around the victim. They can see other people outside the dome but the people outside the dome can't see the people inside the dome.
This is my first time experiencing them. I want to understand both side, the am-amottings got upset because Lito and Leon literally left their poop in their houses. While it is not Lito and Leon's fault entirely because they can't see them.
I started to look for them, but I can't see them now also, maybe I'm outside their dome, or maybe inside now. I watched as they soon kept quiet, they were drained, they were tired. They gave up now.
"Is it really true though?"
"What" Lito asked
"That we can escape this when we wear our clothes inside out"
"Yeah, maybe we can" Lito answer with not so much energy without so much hope as they were both witnessed how the sun went to sleep.
There is only a little light left it's like the tail of the sun rays.
They took off their shirt and wore it inside out, then just walked down their path silently, holding their breath. Hoping that they could leave this cycle.
The touch of the leaves from their skin and foot were the only presence that they felt. Including the windy cold blow of the wind passing by behind their ear, cooling their warm bodies. They were trudging along the trodden path using the strength of their eyes only since they didn't bring any saleng or any kind of light to light their path.
They can now hear the songs of the creatures of the night. The howls of the wild dogs, the humming of any other kind of insects, the klock, klock of the dragonflies and the little lamps on the butt of the fireflies. Upon hearing this joyous nature orchestra Leon started humming. He started humming a melody of a song that he learned from Bible School.
Leon kept on repeating this melody until Lito himself joined in the humming. They both don't know what to expect, they were both unsure if they will be ever safe or they will forever be walking around in circle. Their humming matched the beating of their heart, their hoping heart and scared heart. They did this for quite a time before Lito suddenly halted, his bare feet can now feel the stony road, the bumpy main road that they had walked onto hours ago. Leon himself sighed when his feet felt the ground.
They are not yet safe for they need to climb another mountain to reach their home but at least they are now safe for now.
The moon and the unseen spirits were the witnesses of that night how Leon and Lito were able to walk out the invisible dome that could've trapped them for the rest of their lives.
₁ sangot – A situation wherein a person will be trapped in the same place for hours. This happens when a person disturbed living spaces of the unseen spirits, these usually happens in forests. By being disturbed means, they are either too noisy, laughing loudly, talking loudly, shouting, taking a piss or taking a dump in that place.
It's really hard to escape this situation.
One tourist guide told me that they were trapped in this situation because the tourists were laughing loudly even when he clearly warned them. The only solution he came up with is to climb a tree and find the trail. And he did it but still can't find the way even when following the direction that he saw while on top of the tree. The last option that he did is to not follow the trail that he saw, he told the tourists to follow him wherever he would lead, no one should be left behind. Luckily he brought his bolo so he can clear some way, he needs to cut the grasses since it can be taller and can hurt. They just kept on going through grasses until they eventually found their way down. Fortunately they came out on the right direction because if they came down from a different direction they would be on another province. The grass blades are the ones that can wound a person, if they are not wearing long sleeves.
₂ am-amotting – small unseen creatures that lives on the trees or in mountains generally .