"Our son, the Golden One who will be the best bodyguard for The Majesty, next King of Jawata," said Lorr En, talking a reason for planning the birth of children.
"So, this is only for the next king," Sakawuni bowed head.
"Why do you look gloomy?" Lorr En asked, but Sakawuni in happy expression, suddenly changed into sad.
"Everyone need the best generation. So do I," Lorr En emphasized.
"If you don't want to, who else will bear my children? Do I need to recruit another wife?" asked Lorr En.
"Kanda, you have not answered, do you love me?" Sakawuni seek answers.
"I will love woman who wants to give birth and be a mother to my children," the answer sounded flat. Sakawuni was not satisfied to hear that.
"Maybe I am not. If the purpose of being married is just to give birth to children. I'm not just a machine for giving birth to children," Sakawuni got up and turned around, his tone of annoyance was heard.
"Hey, what's up?" wondered Lorr En, really insensitive to his wife feelings and heart.
"Where are you going?" a little confused about his wife's behavior getting weirder day by day.
"Why are words of love so important to you? You started the conversation about children, how lonely is a house without children," Lorr En said a little loudly, but not enough to stop Sakawuni from walking away from him.
"Should I engrave love sentences on sailing ships?!" Lorr En's screams were ignored. Now, the woman disappeared at the end of the path to the cottage that belonged to them both.
"Woman!"
Lorr En stopped talking. Rather complain about his wife, he don't understand the language of the heart of a creature called woman. Moreover marriage without love.
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Another day. Lorr En talk about the giving birth of frogman again to Sakawuni.
"Female frog in Gunggali, be able to contain 1000 fetuses in one birth. The fetus is fertilized within three times for 40 days. After that, babies will be born, appearing in the nests of the river incubated by the Male Frog," Lorr En explained how the babies of Gunggali Frogs are born.
"Ah!" Sakawuni staggered from head to toe. Imagine how strange such a way of breeding would be.
"But I'm not a female frog, Kanda. Just find a replacement for myself. Who can give birth to thousands of eggs?" Sakawuni said, already overwhelmed. Unexpectedly, being the wife of the Commander of the Bayuangga Maritime Township, a status in front of the Javanese people, her husband was a well-known leader. However, she is the only woman who knows at this time, actually Lorr En. Half-frog man.
"So, you don't want to be a mother to my children?" Lorr En was not interested in discussing more, when he looked reluctant on his wife's face.
"Well," Lorr En said and hurried away.
"You don't wait for me on arrival. At least in the next 3 months, I will sail to the Northern Ocean," only this sentence that Lorr En said before leaving to welcome routine work. The threshold of his house, the time barrier between husband and wife will be separated in the next few months.
Her husband, Lorr En. Very love the ocean. A diversion of disappointment and loneliness. Sakawuni recalled the agreement between herself and Lorr En, as well as Sekar Wening. Everything is not as in line as at the beginning of the deal. Even Sakawuni no longer has a goal as a medical and spiritual healer. She slowly became a wife figure for Lorr En. Completely wife. But if it continues like this, it will become gray for his future.
"1000 fetuses. 100 babies will be born soon," overwhelmed whenever Sakawuni remembered that. But already her heart was stolen by Lorr En. Having long kept heart secretly, neither did the man show his love. Except ....
"Really, by being a mother to her children, she will love me?" so exclaimed, Sakawuni's mind. A dashing man handsome, healthy and famous. The dream of many women. Sakawuni has already got it. It's just a matter of love.
"Kanda Lorr!" Sakawuni called the husband as he headed out the door. The threshold there no longer appears the husband.
"Kanda!"
Sakawuni feel regretful. She call him again and again. As if the husband was gone forever.
"What's the matter?" the baritone's voice retorted from an unexpected direction. As it turns out, Lorr En hasn't gone far. He is just busy preparing everything necessary for tomorrow's sail.
Sakawuni has tear in her eyes, welcoming the husband.
"Look at me! Do I seem a machine or a human for you?" Sakawuni asked, sparkling between sad and confused himself.
"What do you think my children are? A machine will be born from a machine?" Lorr En replied her, "Have I treated you as like as a machine for a long life?"
"I'm willing, give birth to our children, Kanda. But I don't know, can I?" Sakawuni finally gave up on Lorr En.
"Really?" Lorr En was not convinced, but wanted to believe in Sakawuni's sincerity. His wife is 30 years old, about to give birth to a generation of Frog Warriors.
"I don't know what my purpose in life is, maybe by giving birth to your children, I will become more meaningful," Sakawuni thought.
"You're going to give birth to a lot of soldiers, not ordinary people," Lorr En said. While installing a gold tie on the crown of the head, also put on one by one the uniform equipment of the maritime township.
"If expressions of love are urgently needed, then I will say a thousand times. But is it just a sentence?" asked Lorr En wondered.
"Kanda, I love you," Sakawuni put the husband firstly since now.
The love in that one sentence has long been suppressed. Since there was Sekar Wening by Lorr En's side as his wife.
Lorr En, the ideal husband. But all this time, Sakawuni felt that he was only needed as a medicine. Nothing more.
"I ... betray our deal, Kanda. Forgive me," Sakawuni said that.
"Betraying? What do you mean?" Lorr En asked, not understanding about what Sakawuni meant.
"I've loved you for a long time, since Kanda was Wening's husband, but I never tell you. I just grudge it. That's why I feel like I've betrayed you," Sakawuni said, admitting a guilt for secretly in love. He bowed slowly. Tearful both eyeballs endured a pool of tears.
"Love is not a mistake. Why apologize?" Lorr En informed.
"If you feel guilty, say sorry to Wening someday. If you meet her," Lorr En suggested. Talking about someone is none other than Sekar Wening.
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NOTE:
*Gunggali: The deep forest where the elf and fairy creatures live.