“I am coming.” while kissing my cheek. She puts an old book on a table. It is dusty and broken. There are some words on the cover, which is written with an old font. ‘Magical Words to Spell’. In addition, a symbol is under the words.
“Where do you get this book”, I ask to her.
“Hem, are you interested?” she seems to kid. “I believe that you will love this book”.
I take the book and open first page. There is a picture. In the picture, an old man is wearing a cone hat and a long white dress. He has a long white beard and is sitting on a chair reading a book, which is on the table in front of him.
“Ok. I must leave now. My boy friend is waiting for me”, walks a while, turns her face back, and says, “Don’t tell any one about this book”.
She spoke murmur so that I could not listen to what she said. However, this is an attractive book I ever got in my life. It is such imaginations that were poured on every page of this amazing book. I don’t want to miss it. However, it is not a certain condition to read it here. I have to bring it at home and try how amazing it is.
“Abracadabra”
“Abracadabra. What the hell word is. Is this magical or bullshit word? I almost spell it more then a hundred times, but nothing happened. I must spell it again”, while looking at the word to ensure that he did not miss any alphabet.
“Abracadabra”
“Abracadabra”
“Abra - cadabraaa”, threw the book to the corner of the room, “Bullshit! I spelled it a hundred and three but still did not occur anything here.”
Wind blows hard, suddenly, from the opened window making curtains in that room sway back and forth. She stands up and tries to reach the window to close it, but the wind blows harder. The book opened. Light rises from the middle of the book and lightens the room. She, now, looks at the light and walks slowly to that light.
“It is amazing”. As fast as the light disappears, the wind stops blowing hard. The room is scattered. She takes the book and focuses her eyes on the opened page, which the light appeared from, and tries to read the ancient words she never finds out before.
“God, I miss this page.” She read the sentences and tries memorizing it. Her mouth seems to move but not speak aloud. Some fingers stay close to the dirty pages.
“Thanks god! Eventually, I understand this confusing book” while opening next page.
“The formula” shouting. “This magic formula needs ingredient. Two bear nails, a cat hair, and four bird eyes.” She stops a while. Her brow is furrowed. She closes the page and puts it behind a colorful pillow, than lays her slimming body on the mattress. She takes a long breath and releases it slowly. Her two-eyes are gazing at twinkling lamp hanging on ceiling.
“Where can I get those ingredients? At the market where every body goes shopping. Does the market sell any bear nail and cat hair? How silly I am”. She tries to close the eyes, but a shinning white circle door appears, suddenly, from the corner of that room. She is surprised. She doesn’t realize that her body moves to that door itself. The shinning door blinds her eyes.
Wide grassland without any tree. Long grasses cover the brown earth and a body lay stretched out under a big tree. A beast-man is coming near to that body. He bends his back and look at every inch of the lying body. “Human”, then he turns back keeping away from and walks. He stops.
“Human and human again” he speaks loudly. “Why humans must be here. They must stain this pure world” while turning back again and walking to that body.
The girl’s eyes opened slowly. She tries to sit under the big tree. She is surprised by a strange creature whose head is buffalo, body is human and feet are cow. She screams loudly and the creature is only in silent. “Who are you? Where am I?” While standing from her sit.
That creature come near to the girl and says, “You are not the only human who ever come to this place. Follow me! I will accompany you to your community”.
“Hey, who are you?” ask that girl while following the creature. The creature doesn’t respond. He just keeps walking.
“Hello! Do you hear me?” Before the creature answer, suddenly, a very big spider stands in front of them. Its eyes like some glasses stick on its face. The spider sends out web to catch them, but the creature’s axe bladed it. The spider sends out web continuously. “Hide behind that tree” he commands to that girl while pointing at a big tree near river. The girl quickly hides behind the tree and the creature still fights against spider.
The spider shoots web to the creature, but only his axe thrown. Now, the creature heads the spider without any weapon. Shooting web caught his body. He cannot move. That spider is running fast to him. The girl just hides behind the tree although she knows that his friend caught.
“I must help him. I must help him” she says to herself. She goes out from that hidden place and takes a branch of a tree. She shouts to the spider, “Hey, crazy spider! Isn’t it bored eating a kind of those creatures, is it? Eat me! Eat me now” while rising the branch up to the spider.
The spider seems to be angry. It walks far from the creature to the girl. Web is flying from the spider to her. She can avoid it, luckily. However, she doesn’t realize that another web is coming fast to catch her. They, both, cannot move now because of spider’s web.
That big spider, now, is walking to eat the girl. Its mouth opens and drops of saliva are falling on the earth. The creature tries to release the web. The web is so hard. The spider’s mouth becomes closer to the girl. The girl screams and suddenly a shinning light appears from around her body. The branch becomes a magic stick. “Fire bolt!” the girl shouts and a fire bolt-ball burns the spider. Webs which tied them disappear as the spider disappeared.
“You are an ordinary people. You are magician. Let’s leave this place soon!” then they continue the journey to the human community. Their adventure in the magic world just was begun.
M SAYID WIJAYA
