BRINGING ELLIA TO A NEW LIFE

"Bissmillahirrahmannirrahiim." Indra read the prayer before unwrapping the cloth. The attitude of astonishment and surprise did not escape the expression that Indra had at this time because inside the package only Ellia's bones remained, just as Kyai had told them last night.

Indra looked down at Ellia's bones that had been lifted from the hole they had dug. Then he turned to the figure of Ellia who was also crying beside Raphael.

It was a sad sight for the three of them. Sadness gnawed at their hearts again, with different thoughts and perceptions when they looked at the pile of human bones they knew.

For more than an hour, the two of them did nothing, until the sun had sent its heat, and bathed them in its light.