Guide Evil To Light
Alicia Jie Hye Lee
Genre : International Crime Fiction
9/16/2021
Began to write in February 2021
Fiction Finalized in April 11th 2022
11/4/2021
Rafahnin is a 12-year-old boy and a faithful Christian in Halviune, an Islamic country. Rafahnin was born and raised in Halviune while their parents, who are not from the middle east, visited Halviune for their missionary work. In Halviune approximately 1,600 people resides. Halviune is an agricultural country where just about every person living in the village arduously works as a farmer. Yet, nearly half of the land of Halviune is an extremely arid plateau region, desert. The desert is called Zahgina Desert. The desert gradually encroaches on surrounding agricultural areas. And about several kilometers away from where the desert gradually begins, there resides the infamous corrupted terrorist group called Tuillitac. Tuillitac is extremely infamous for its unhidden hideous terrorism. When they are having a bad day they randomly tortured and killed their people and others who seem to be resistant against them. Tuillitac was extremely infamous for its hidden corruption as well like certain other countries. They brainwashed the people by constantly telling them they should be grateful to be under their regime for they are the controller of every human, they collected crops and cash from their hard working people every week no matter how they were poor, sell the crops back to the people and those of other regions by inflating the price, outrageously self-worshipped themselves, justified their ruthless act telling them they are above the law, turned a deaf ear to any logical and necessary criticism they receive. Yet, when necessary to maintain its regime, they give cash to its people, the cash which they stole from those very people, deceitfully acting as if they are showing compassion and humaneness toward them. And those who stand against Tuillitac or try to escape the Tuillitac region will be subject to incessant deadly execution and torture for the rest of their life.
11/11/2021
Tuillitac is known for their repressive rules under a certain kind of Islamist ideology called Zehalamih Islam, which is outrageously degraded deviated from the normal Islamic faith. It prohibits to accept any other religions. Especially Christian. And if ever Zehalamih is violated by any people, the person will be subject to severe torture and will be publicly executed at the site. This is usually when Zehalamih is violated within the Zahgina Desert, their territory, however, at times, they cross the border and attack other regions like Halviune and kill innocent people when they try to resist their orders, extort cash and crops from the people, and kidnap men and women for labor. Thus Christians nearby Zahgina Desert, to not get caught, believe and worship service confidentially and act as normal farmers. And because of these frequent attacks, Halviune itself has organized a military system that is consisted of nearly every male and female in the village to defend itself against the attack of Tuillitac.
When Rafahnin was 8 years old, his parents were killed by the hideous Tuillitac with other faithful Christians in the village. And ever since, he was raised in a Christian Home named Lahiebel. He was faithfully and lovingly raised and cared by Pastor Nuhlewadu alongside with other religious people who were evangelists, missionaries, clergymen, deacons in Lahiebel. Rafahnin, other than these people, since he arrived in Lahiebel, was very close to a girl named, Liyulana. Rafahnin and Liyulana were both raised in Lahiebel nearly at the same period of time after their parents were both killed by Tuillitac. Pastor Nuhlewadu was like a dear father to both of them. Rafahnin and Liyulana spent a lot of time with Pastor Nuhlewadu, followed him nearly everywhere he went. Pastor Nuhlewadu would oftentimes take Rafahnin and Liyulana to climb a nearby mountain which is located in the border between Halviune and the Zahgina Desert ever since they were brought to the home. Rafahnin liked to climb the mountain because it cleared his mind, allowed him to maintain his calmness and generosity, and let him connect and reconnect the positive relationship with the natural world outside and inside within him. And whenever they hit the peak, Rafahnin along with Liyulana and Pastor Nuhlewadu would appreciate the beautiful and pure view of nature that unfolded before their eyes. I missed the land said Liyulana to herself. And after the time of appreciation, Rafahnin and Pastor Nuhlewadu would sit calmly close their eyes and listen to the peaceful note Liyulana played on her wooden flute.
11/18/2021
Rafahnin and Liyulana was taught by a number of good proverbs in the bible first by their parents since they were little kids. They were taught to be genuinely nice and generous. They were taught love is not capricious. Love should be firm and unchangeable. Not to trust people easily for there are capricious people who uses another for selfish reason, and not to trust people who look as if they are sincere outside yet have different thoughts inside. And unfortunately the personality of those types of people are hard to change, unless they realize the true meaning of altruism and benevolence. Thus, Rafahnin and Liyulana learned, for a person to trust one person and feel genuine love toward a person, it always takes time because it is important to get to know the person by heart and has to have patience. And ever since their parents passed away and Rafahnin and Liyulana were brought to Lahiebel, Rafahnin and Liyulana would share the proverbs they learned from their parents from the bible. They would quietly walk into the prayer room, hidden in the front basement of Lahiebel, and pray. They would together pray and dream, in their warm benign little hearts, that one day when it is time, when they both could forgive the leader of the Tuillitac for taking their parents lives, they would walk into the vast eldritch Zahgina Desert to give back the love, the indelible real love they received, and evangelize the infamous regime of Tuillitac . . . . ( And two years passed ) . . . . Rafahnin and Liyulana, one sunny day as usual was helping out the farm chores of other elderly farmers in the village. “Rafahnin . . Liyulana . . ” They heard Pastor Nuhlewadu calling them from Lahiebel. Rafahnin and Liyulana looked at each other, gathered their tools and excused themselves from the field and hurriedly started to walk toward Lahiebel. Pastor Nuhlewadu was waiting for them outside the porch of Lahiebel. “Did you two have a good day . . ” asked Pastor Nuhlewadu. Both of them nodded with a little smile on their faces. “Now, it is Thursday noon, time to give our prisoner gentleman water and grains.” And all of a sudden Rafahnin and Liyulana went stiff. Liyulana with a frightened face stepped back with a little tremble. “Now don’t be afraid . . what did I tell you two . . the man down there is one of your enemies from Tuitillac . . and one day . . whether you like it or not you will confront many of them . . and this is just one of those drills to boost your courage which is necessary . . ” after these words, Pastor Nuhlewadu gave a bowl of water to Rafahnin and a bowl of grains to Liyulana. And they walked toward the basement door that was attached to the side of Lahiebel. As soon as they arrived at the basement door Rafahnin and Liyulana looked at Pastor Nuhlewadu anxiously. “Now you two don’t be afraid . . when you reach the bottom of the basement just push the bowls into the broken crack at the bottom of the gate where the man is in as you did the last time . .” “Rafahnin you are a brave boy aren’t you . . you head down first . .” Rafahnin looked at Liyulana. He eyed Liyulana to follow him and nodded tried to tell Liyulana it will be alright. Liyulana shaked her head and looked at him eyes full of fear. Rafahnin pulled Liyulana close to him and with a deep breath began to walk down the stairs. Liyulana hurriedly grabbed Rafahnin and followed him down. They carefully walked down and down the candle-lit dark stone stairs. And down and down. How many minutes passed. Then all of a sudden Rafahnin and Liyulana heard a deep dreadful agonized howl. Liyulana in horror screamed herself and nearly tripped. Rafahnin startled held on to Liyulana as tight as he can his eyes straightly looking down toward the basement.
The agonized howl got louder as Rafahnin and Liyulana went down and down. How many minutes passed. Near the last step of the stairs, Rafahnin and Liyulana faced the ancient wooden gate. The howl of a human got graver now with a desperate weak pound strike on the gate. Rafahnin straightly looked at the dungeon gate eye to eye and gave a one last good look then looked at Liyulana who was still holding on to him tightly terrified. Rafahnin closed his eyes. Liyulana instantly closed her eyes too. Give us your light of bravery and peace no matter how much the fear struggle placed before us is dreadful at this time Please . . Hear Us . .
Rafahnin after his deep desperate prayers along with Liyulana beside him, hurriedly looked at Liyulana and took the bowl of grains Liyulana was holding on and charged to the dungeon gate with his bowl of water, breathing heavily, step by step, lowering himself to the broken crack and shoved the bowels into the crack. Nearly finish shoving them into the crack, Rafahnin horridly screamed with a hard fall. Liyulana screamed with horror. Inside the narrow crack did Rafahnin see a dark human head sideways with his mouth covered desperately wretchedly looking at Rafahnin.
Rafahnin nearly out of his mind backed off crawled and ran toward Liyulana grabbed her and began to hastily briskly walk up the stairs. Too dark this place is too dark said Rafahnin to himself anguishedly breathing hard as ever. Rafahnin and Liyulana in fright walked up and up toward the top of the stairs. Yet, all of a sudden, there they heard ghastly footsteps far below. The desperate footsteps got louder and louder faster and faster. Rafahnin and Liyulana deadly frightened walked up as fast as they could through the candle lit dark stairs. The footsteps got closer and closer louder and louder. Through the hollow darkness Rafahnin and Liyulana in anguish in despair walked up where only the unearthly urgent footsteps echoed through the stairs with the agonized howl after howl. And yet, how far were they. Rafahnin and Liyulana unconsciously felt the footsteps the howl gradually fading away. And suddenly, a light. Faint light, which got brighter and brighter as they arduously walked up till their last breath was out of their body. Rafahnin and Liyulana, finally reached the top of the stairs. Rafahnin turned back faintly and saw Liyulana without a word flop down on the ground filled with full exhaustion and state of breakdown still holding on to him. Rafahnin held on to Liyulana as well as he himself knelt down nearly ready to pass out. Yet, all of a sudden, the vision of the desperately agonized human he saw eye-to-eye down the dungeon gate captivated his mind in front of him. He felt the agonized human was drawing near to him closer and closer. “No . . no . . ” Rafahnin closed his eyes trying to avoid the vision from his mind, “get away from me . ." yelled Rafahnin disheartened. Yet, an eerie voice started to permeate into Rafahnin, “Rafahnin Rafahnin”, Rafahnin for his dear life shouted, “No . . . ." and frustratingly looked straight toward the agonized desperate human as hard as he can with the last strength he could hold on to. And yet . . was astonished to see . . the dim vision of Pastor Nuhlewadu in front of him. Rafahnin felt dizzy. He felt Pastor Nuhlewadu was trying to talk to him, however, couldn’t hear a word. Rafahnin tried to look at Pastor Nuhlewadu yet got dizzier and dizzier. Rafahnin fainted.
12/1/2021
Rafahnin felt he was gradually waking up because of a hard push. He faintly saw a person in front. “Liyulana . .” said Rafahnin. “Are you alright Rafahnin . .” asked Liyulana distraughtly worried. “Liyulana . . Yes . . I’m fine I’m fine . . how about you are you alright . .” Rafahnin saw Liyulana nod her head. Liyulana then went out of the room and then came back with a bowl of water. Rafahnin slowly sat up. Liyulana slowly passed the bowl of water to Rafahnin. Rafahnin carefully drank the warm water. Rafahnin seemed to feel a little better. Yet, suddenly, Rafahnin again felt the vision of the agonized human he confronted eye-to-eye at the basement near him. The eyes . . those eyes . . felt desperate . . too desperate . . Rafahnin thought while trying to snap out of that thought. Liyulana looked at Rafahnin who began to tremble badly. “Rafahnin . .” Liyulana called out anxiously. Rafahnin still badly trembling tried to look at Liyulana with his sudden blurred vision and abruptly said, “I am alright Liyulana . . I am . . ” “Lie down Rafahnin please . . You are not well . .” Rafahnin gradually realizing his mentally disturbed unstable state lied down as Liyulana slowly helped him. Liyulana looked at Rafahnin with deep sadness . . and without a word closed her eyes and begin to pray . .
“God . . I truly understand you work in mysterious ways . . yet at times it was hard for me to understand the work of yours . . and at times I would question myself again and again what is it that I did wrong . . and fortunately I got my faithful answer way later on between time from my road of life you led me to see and feel . . that the cause I repeatedly felt the agony and pain within me was because I repeatedly walked the same road . . gratefully through you I was led to a bright new road of life that is now filled with peace within me . . from then on however strange your work is to me . . as long as my faith to you is true and real . . I now believe the work of yours is not to abandon us yet to awaken and enlighten us through the dark and misty road that will eventually lead to light . . God . . Rafahnin here right now is lost in the middle of nowhere in the dark and misty road . . Please protect him guide him soon to the very light of yours as you did for me please . . Amen . ."
How many hours passed. Rafahnin gradually unconsciously felt himself be in peace. He carefully arose from his bed sat up. Then he saw Liyulana asleep her arms as her pillow on his bed her legs kneeled on the ground. “Liyulana . . Liyulana . . wake up . . why are you asleep like that . .” Liyulana a little bit surprised woke up and said, “Are you alright Rafahnin . .” “Yes . . Are you alright . .” Liyulana nodded with a smile full of relief and said to herself, “Thank you . . God . . Deeply . . Thank you . . ” “Let’s slowly take a walk in the nature . .” said Rafahnin, “I want to breathe . . and feel the light . .” Liyulana joyfully stood up and walked blissfully toward her wooden desk and picked up her wooden flute and waited for Rafahnin to get ready. And all of a sudden they heard a footstep. Rafahnin and Liyulana both looked at each other and then quickly looked toward the door where the footstep was getting closer and closer. “Pastor Nuhlewadu . .” said Rafahnin, when he saw Pastor Nuhlewadu in front of their room. “Liyulana . . would you give us a minute . .” Liyulana looked at Rafahnin and looked at Pastor Nuhlewadu and bowed quietly went out of the room. “Liyulana stay outside I will be out soon . .” said Rafahnin in a little loud voice just to make sure Liyulana could hear him. “Pastor Nuhlewadu . . what is it you want to see me . . ” “Rafahnin . . what I wanted to . .” Yet then, all of a sudden Rafahnin heard far away screams and loud gun shots outside their home. “No, Tuitillac” Pastor Nuhlewadu astounded hurriedly went out of the room. Rafahnin suddenly remembered he told Liyulana to stay outside. “Liyulana . . ” Rafahnin with frustration dashed out of the room as fast as he can, and all at once stopped in front of the door in terror. Before his eyes did he see Liyulana standing still facing a Tuitillac military truck right in front of her. “No . ." Rafahnin yelled “Liyulana . . ” Then within no time a large man in full combat gear got down from the truck and started to walk toward Liyulana . . Rafahnin insanely furiously yelled, “No . .” Liyulana slowly turned her head and looked at Rafahnin her eyes filled with tears of regret and sadness . . “Rafahnin . . ”
12/8/2021
Rafahnin anguishedly darted out the door dashed to where Liyulana was . . Yet . . it was too late . . The man grabbed Liyulana and walked toward the truck . . “No . . No . .” Rafahnin shouted his heart out ran toward the truck and yelled, “Liyulana . . ” The truck engine started. Rafahnin devastated ran in front of the truck and blocked it. He looked at the man in the truck who took Liyulana face to face. “Liyulana . . Liyulana . .” yelled Rafahnin in despair straightly looking in the eyes of the man. The man without a word looked at Rafahnin. It seemed as if the world was subdued by the total silent tension between the man and Rafahnin.
“Tuhletabu, not now,” a person next to the man shouted. Tuhletabu gave a nod while looking at Rafahnin. The truck then backed up made a huge noise and aggressively passed Rafahnin, fastly drove away. Rafahnin absentmindedly stood still. It happened too fast. Too fast. Rafahnin slowly turned back where the truck drove away. And along the dusty sand road, there Rafahnin saw a little wooden flute laid alone on the road. Rafahnin slowly forsakenly walked toward the wooden flute, collapsed on the ground, picked the wooden flute and held it tight to his broken heart his eyes filled with tears of anguish and sadness . . “Liyulana . .”
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2/11/2022
Rafahnin was in silence. Rafahnin held on to the wooden flute tightly close to his heart. How many minutes passed. Rafahnin slowly held his head up. Rafahnin then realized the village became quiet. He absent-mindedly looked toward the constant dusty road. Rafahnin then arduously painfully lifted himself. And stood there. Rafahnin stood there as if he was rooted to the spot and continuously looked at the road where Liyulana was taken away. Rafahnin closed his eyes trying to fight himself from breaking down and helplessly turned and painfully walked toward home. After taking a few steps Rafahnin stopped. He then started to head toward the Church. Rafahnin, looking down, walked slowly one step at a time as if he wanted the steps he took could take him straight to Liyulana. Arriving at the church Rafahnin without a halt quietly walked into the prayer room, which was hidden in the front basement of Lahiebel, and as usual lighted the candle. And he kneeled himself. And he slowly put the wooden flute right next to him on the spot where Liyuala should have been if she were here . . with him . . yet Liyulana was not . . Rafahnin looked at the vacant seat . . He felt the crucified pain permeating into his broken heart . . pictured the peaceful face . . of Liyulana . . his best friend who was always there for him day and night ever since two found each other . . sharing the sadness of losing their dear parents . . whom he unconsciously believed that they will be together . . eternally . . whom . . he now cannot see . . he cannot . . Tears filled in his eyes incessantly . . the sadness . . the pain . . permeating into his heart . . “why God . . why . . Liyulana does not deserve to be treated like this . . God why why . ." Rafahnin . . slowly . . became furious . . he looked at the cross in front of him and yelled as if he wanted to throw away his pain his agony he no longer can deal with . . “why . . why . ." yelled Rafahnin furiously again and again . . “Tuitillac . .” Rafahnin . . got angrier . . “Tuhletabu . .” got . . angrier . . and all of a sudden . . the human he faced down the basement . . with Liyulana . . crossed his mind . . the human . . from Tuitillac . . Rafahnin held his fist . . Rafahnin began to shake . . the shake got uncontrollable . .
Rafahnin picked up the wooden flute and insanely dashed out of the prayer room and fiercly ran and ran toward the other side of the basement door . . and without a halt Rafahnin ran down the candle-lit dark stairs . . the very stairs he and Liyulana dreadfully wanted to avoid in the past . . yet no . . there was no hesitation . . there was no fear . . fear was no longer his enemy . . the frightful echoed footstep . . the dire noise of the dreadful agonized howl . . were no longer a dread to Rafahnin . . they were his enemies . . Rafahnin every step he took down down the candle-lit dark stairs stomped his foot as hard as he can as if he wanted to smash the noise of the unearthly echoed footstep . . “howl all you want howl all you want . . “ shouted Rafahnin repeatedly as if he wanted to shatter the noise of the howl into pieces . . and down down he toiled away through the dark dungeon stairs . . and finally . . there . . Rafahnin stood in front of the dungeon gate . . once again . . shouting his one last desperate fearless cry before he confront his enemy face to face . . “howl all you want . . howl all you want . .”
2/17/2022
Rafahnin with a fierce huge shout then ran toward the dungeon gate and begin to slam the gate as hard as he could . . “who are you . . how you people from Tuitillac be this evil . . “ “why . . why . .” yelled Rafahnin insanely on and on slamming on the dungeon gate . . And all of a sudden Rafahnin heard a direct howl beneath the gate. Rafahnin abruptly recalled the little crack beneath the dungeon gate where he and Liyulana used to shove the food and water to the human. Rafahnin who had enough instantly kneeled down and without hesitation put his head into the narrow crack . . and there he saw again a dark human head desperately wretchedly looking at Rafahnin sideways with his mouth covered with a huge rope . . Rafahnin without fear looked straight into the eyes of the human and screamed his heart out as if it were his last words on earth . . “why why . . what you and your people want from us . . answer me . . answer me . . “ shouted out Rafahnin as his desperate and agonized voice rang and rang throughout the dungeon ground . . Yet . . all of a sudden . . Rafahnin heard a sad helpless yell . . “no . . no . .” Rafahnin his head still between the crack of the dungeon gate face to face with the human . . instantly stopped his yell . . looked at the human . . Rafahnin could not clearly hear the words of the human because his mouth was covered with a huge rope . . yet he did hear a voice . . Rafahnin flustered . . tried hard to calm himself down and pull himself together . . closed his eyes and lent his ear . . “please I . . I . .” said the human with a low shaky yell . . Rafahnin astounded yet still on alert . . looked at the human . . he looked at the human carefully . . took a closer and closer look . . and to his dismay . . there he saw the clearer view of the anguished eyes of the human with a huge grey bruise on his forehead . . The eyes were filled with tears which felt like the very tears of fear and desperation . . Rafahnin realized that the human was looking at Rafahnin with terrified eyes desperately shaking his head . . “who . . who are you . . what is . . your . . name . .” cried Rafahnin . . with that the human with a little assured voice desperately yelled trying to enunciate each word as clear as he could . .“ja . ." "hu . ." "ne . ." "le . .” Yet . . all of a sudden . . Rafahnin . . heard dark footsteps . . right behind him . .
3/2/2022
Rafahnn too astounded hurriedly put his head out of the crack and turned back in an aghasted haste. And there he saw a dark phantom-like figure with the darkest robe approach . . closer closer to Rafahnin . . Rafahnin . . was horrified . . “who is there who is there . .” shouted Rafahnin with his sudden chill of fear chasing after him again . . however . . regardless of the terrified shout of the innocent trying to shake off his fear . . the chill of inapprehensible darkness that permeated under the dungeon ground . . reached out for Rafahnin . . and got closer and . . closer . . Rafahnin panicked and held his breath at the same time his back tightly attached to the dungeon gate . . and right before the ghastly darken figure was about to reveal from the darkness of the dungeon . . Rafahnin felt an eldritch chill pass right through him . . yet then felt his body trembling uncontrollably . . harder and harder . . and instantly did Rafahnin heard a loud holler calling his name . . “Rafahnin . .” Rafahnin without a breath . . horrifiedly looked at the dark tensed figure appear . . and . . then . . as he nearly choked . . cried out . . “Pastor . ." “ . . Nuhlewadu” it was Pastor Nuhlewadu . . “Rafahnin . . why are you here . ." shouted out Pastor Nuhlewadu with an indignant eyes sharply glaring at Rafahnin . . “I . . I . . “ stammered Rafahnin . . with chills felt all through his body . . “Rafahnin . . Did I not tell you never to be down here except when I tell you to provide food and water . . Didn’t I tell you . . never . . talk to the human . . “ Pastor Nuhlewadu sternly yelled raising his voice glaring at Rafahnin . . “Rafahnin . . answer . .” yelled Pastor Nuhlewadu aggressively taking one step closer to Rafahnin. Rafahnin astounded abruptly stepped back nearly falling down. “Past . . Pastor Nuhlewadu . . Liyulana has been kidnapped . . that is why I . .” “Rafahnin . ." Pastor Nuhlewadu yelled his loudest loud ever . . his eyes reflecting the uncontrolled rage of the flared storm . . taking another step closer to Rafahnin . ." You did not answer my question . . Did I not tell you Rafahnin . . " Rafahnin . . cornered in the midst of confusion . . suddenly . . felt . . lonely and sad . . too lonely and sad . . the frenzy rage of echoed yell of Pastor Nuhlewadu seemed unreal . . the human in the dungeon he faced eye to eye who seemed too desperate and weak to be part of the Tuitillac seemed unreal . . Rafahnin felt too confused . . blank . . Rafahnin got disheartened weak . . he couldn’t stand it . . Rafahnin exhaustedly absentmindedly . . in frustration . . dashed toward the stairs leaving madly exasperated Pastor Nuhlewadu behind the dungeon ground . . “Rafahnin . . this place is dangerous . . Rafahnin . .” Pastor Nuhlewadu shouting from the below dungeon ground . . “No . . No . .” shouted out Rafahnin to himself . . it did not matter . . he did not care . . what he cared about was that Liyulana was not here with him . . and Rafahnin . . did not even know whether Liyualna was alive . . “Liyulana . . Liyulana . .” cried Rafahnin as he darted up the stairs tears filled in his eyes with another wave of heartbreak full of loneliness and sadness that permeated deep deep into his heart . .
Rafahnin dashed up and up the stairs . . dashed out of the church door . . passed the homes and the trees . . ran and ran toward the field the prairie . . and up to mountain . . the very mountain Rafahnin hiked with Liyulana whenever the world seemed to be too cold and harsh . . whenever he wanted to disappear from the world . . He ran and ran as though he wanted to fly away away from the world . . and finally . . having no idea how he got to the top of the mountain . . threw himself on the ground still tightly holding on to the wooden flute . . panted and gasped on and on trying to catch his breath . . however still feeling the agony and pain . . Rafahnin started to scream . . “Ahhhhhh . ." screamed Rafahnin as hard as he can as though he wanted to take his anguish and pain . . out of his heart . . out of this world . . Rafahnin screamed his heart out until there was no strength left within him . . Rafahnin . . laid on the ground . . trying to catch his left breath . . then Rafahnin looked at the sky above . . the sky Liyualana loved and adored . . Rafahnin closed his eyes . . his eyes his heart bursted with tears . . held on to the wooden flute tightly . . “Liyulana . .” cried out Rafahnin . . again and again . . and again . . and again . . and . . how many minutes passed . . Rafahnin finally trying to pull himself together . . raised his wary body . . sat down still feeling total exhaustion . . then he looked at the view . . The view he and Liyualana loved and adored . . and then . . suddenly his eyes stopped . . there . . he saw the infamous notorious . . Tuitillac regime far and far away . . Rafahnin unconsciously stood up . . and with his eyes on the forsaken regime . . said to himself holding onto the wooden flute tightly to his heart . . “Tuitillac . . I will be there . . I will Liyulana . . Please . . Wait a little please . . Hold on . . hold on . . Liyulana . .”
Any person who must head to the Tuitillac regime, the godforsaken deserted place, needs to pass the Zahgina desert. Normally the desert is difficult to pass without a truck because of the deadly desert storm and the extreme coldness of the night which killed many people who traveled on foot. It will take nearly a day by foot to get to Tuitillac. However . . there will be no stop for Rafahnin . . Because no matter where he is . . the place without Liyulana with him . . will be . . an abandoned . . godforsaken . . place . .
Rafahnin, after dusk, now at his home, was preparing to leave for Tuitillac. He decided to wait until tomorrow, which is the day Pastor Nuhlewadu will be out of the village for errands for several days as he used to in the past. Rafahnin began to pack. He packed a bottle of water, map, matches and the wooden flute. The flute . . Rafahnin carefully hooked a fine chain into the little crack of it and then cautiously put the flute on his desk . . and then he put out the candle light and tiredly lied down on his bed . . then looked at the flute on the desk in the darkness . . “Liyulana . . ” called out Rafahnin . . and then . . turned his head toward another bed that was faced in the other direction a little far away from him . . Rafahnin abruptly stood up walked toward the bed . . grabbed the little pillow that was quietly laid . . walked back toward his side of the bed . . lied down . . tightly held the pillow and closed his eyes . .
“Liyulana . . How are you . . Where are you . . are you alive Liyulana . . Liyulana . . please . . please . . Liyulana . .” Rafahnin felt the pain and hurtful feel permeating through his heart again . . and again . . eyes filled with tears . . tears that wouldn’t stop . . until . . he find . . Liyulana . . “Liyulana . .” called Rafahnin . . again . . and again . . as he slowly slowly fell asleep . . where no fantasy dream can ever comfort him through the dark and lonely night . . How much time passed . . Rafahnin woke up by the loud cry of a rooster nearby . . Rafahnin hurriedly stood up and looked outside toward the direction of the church where Pastor Nuhlewadu resides. The lights were off. “Pastor Nuhlewadu already left” shouted Rafahnin to himself . . and then hurriedly picked up his backpack shouldered it . . picked up the wooden flute and hung on his neck . . and darted out of his home . . dashed toward the little prayer room . . and Rafahnin . . as soon as he arrived at the dark prayer room . . put his backpack down . . walked toward the candle . . Rafahnin . . suddenly reminisced the times when Liyulana used to lit the candle every time they were in the prayer room to pray . . Rafahnin found the matches and calmly lit the candle . . And then he slowly kneeled himself down . . deeply eyed the cross in front of him for a while . . then closed his eyes and prayed for . . Liyulana . . to be in peace . . until he finds her . . until . . and with his prayer and belief firmly rooted in his heart within . . Rafahnin stood up slowly . .
He looked at the cross for a while . . and bowed . . reached the wooden flute . . " Liyulana . ." gently kissed and held it tight . . Rafahnin instantly felt his eyes his heart filled with unendurable tears again . . Rafahnin trying to hold back his tears hurriedly picked up his backpack shouldered it walked toward the candle . . and with a one last look at the candle . . Rafahnin blew the candle light hard as he can as though he wanted to send the warmth of the light to where Liyulana was . . Yet . . to his surprise the candle light did not turn off . . Rafahnin looked at the candle light with amaze . . he got closer to the candle and looked at the glow of the light . . the light that seemed to diminish what is left of his anxiety . . the light that seemed to pacify his thoughts and raise the valor within him . . Rafahnin . . all of a sudden . . deeply felt the warmness liveliness of Liyulana permeate through his body through his vein . . and with that . . Rafahnin without turning off the candle light . . darted out of Lahiebel . . dashed across the village of Halviune . . passed and passed the homes the trees . . looking straight at the infamous wired border getting closer and closer . . and into . . the endlessly . . deadly grand . . forsaken . . Zahgina desert . . did Rafahnin went in . . as he shouted out . . “Liyulana . .”
The vast endless desert . . Rafahnin walked and walked . . He tried to drink less water as he can for he need to survive with the bottle of water he brought for the rest of the walk to his forsaken destination . . How far did he walk and walk . . suddenly . . a strong dust storm hit Rafahnin . . “No . ." cried Rafahnin desperately wretchedly to himself . . Rafahnin realizing there was no place he could protect himself from the dust storm where he was . . hurriedly took his shirt off and covered his nose and mouth with it . . tried to stay low to the ground as much as possible . . protected his eyes and head with his backpack in case the high dust wind carried heavy dangerous pieces that could hit Rafahnin . . and walked very slowly as he tried to locate a safe high ground where the dust storm is less forceful . . How many minutes passed . . however the dust storm did not fade . . Rafahnin trying to take a grip on himself as much as he can finally . . found a high ground he believed he could stay until the dust storm lasts . . Rafahnin got down on his stomache . . tightly closed his eyes . . stayed still . . breathing very heavily inside his shirt . . began to pray for his safety . . his journey . . for the sake of . . Liyulana . . “no matter how the storm on the outside . . it will not affect the peace within me . .” repeated Rafahnin . . again and again . . on and on . . “no matter how the storm on the outside . . it will not affect the peace within me . .” “it will not affect . .” “the peace within me . .” “it will . . not affect . . “ “the peace . . within . . me . ."
How much time passed . . Rafahnin . . unconsciously felt deep coldness permeate into his body . . Rafahnin astounded by the sudden cold . . hastily . . woke up . . dust storm was gone . . the desert was covered with darkness quietness . . Yet it was cold . . too cold . . Rafahnin trying to regain control of himself . . hurriedly put his shirt back on . . located his backpack and checked whether he had his stuff . . however . . unfortunately . . the bottle of water was gone . . his map matches gone . . bag was totally empty . . “flute . . “ cried Rafahnin and abruptly groped his neck . . and to his relief . . the little chained wooden flute was still there . .
Rafahnin . . with a sigh of relief began to walk . . with his empty bag . . Rafahnin walked toward what he thought was the way to Tuitillac based on what he last remembered in the map . . Rafahnin walked and walked . . and walked and walked . . and all of a sudden Rafahnin heard a loud flutter above the sky . . Rafahnin quickly looked up . . and there he saw a flock of white doves fly through the grand night sky . . Rafahnin with amaze quietly gazed at the doves pass by above the sky for a while . . Rafahnin then suddenly began to walk in the direction where the doves passed by looking at the far away doves slowly be out of sight . .
Rafahnin hastily began to walk and walk fast toward the night sky where the doves flew by . . faster and faster . . “Liyulana . . wait . .” “Please . . wait . .” cried Rafahnin to himself . . while his heart raced . . and raced . . faster than the birds in the night sky . . faster than a wild in the day light . . faster than the wind in the high mountains . . faster than a boat in the grand sea . . did Rafahnin . . walk and walk . . on and on . . toward . . the direction where the doves led . . toward the direction where he must be . . toward the dreadful forsaken lonely land . . toward . . where Liyulana was at . . did Rafahnin . . walk and walk . . however . . as his pace got faster and faster . . Rafahnin . . got thirsty and thirsty . . weary and weary . . weak and weak . . Rafahnin began to breathe roughly one breath after another . . and another . . till he slowed down . . in the vast cold lonely desert . . did he walk slower and slower . . yet . . did not stop walking . . on and on . . Rafahnin walked and walked . . to the point where he could not feel himself . . Yet still . . walked . . walked . . and . . walked . . and walked . . until he . . fainted . .
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Rafahnin . . from far . . seemed to hear shouts . . loud voices . . whip . . gunshots . . it seemed he heard . . yet . . he was not sure . . Rafahnin . . unconscious . . trying to figure out where he was . . and suddenly . . Rafahnin gradually felt pain on his face . . he felt sharp needles poke and pierce through his face . . Rafahnin too astounded of the sudden pain on his face abruptly woke up . . and hastily sat up to see what was causing the pain . . desert flora . . Rafahnin said to himself with a little relief and instantly rubbed his face to soothe the instant pain he felt . . however . . before he even had time to recover his senses . . Rafahnin heard cries . . loud voices . . whip . . gunshots . . and now . . loud and clear . . “was real . . “ said Rafahnin to himself . . and felt urgent tensed . . felt his heart pound . . and hurriedly crouched down to hide himself . . and slowly stood up looked to the direction where the noises were heard . . Rafahnin could see several dim glow far off reflected by the night sky . . Rafahnin saw trees too . . Rafahnin still bent slowly and slowly tiptoed toward the glow . . how many yards did Rafahnin pass . . the glow got closer and closer . . and as the glow got closer and closer . . Rafahnin felt the tense nearer and nearer . . and all of a sudden with loud gunshots with people screaming did Rafahnin saw several guards and people who were working in the field all covered with brown mud . . . . “Tuitillac . . “ said Rafahnin to himself determined and prepared . . yet at the same time his heart pounded fast as ever because of the tension and the fear he felt . . “Liyulana . . Where are you . . ”cried out Rafahnin . . and with his heart getting anxious and concerned . . began to walk a little faster . . faster . . and faster . . and faster . . yet . . as he took his next step . . Rafahnin . . all of a sudden . . felt cold unusal liquid seep into him . . mud . . and Rafahnin . . too astonished by the sudden encounter . . tripped into it . . Rafahnin frustrated with fear that the Tuitillac guards might have heard him as he collapsed . . laid still . . he laid still as though he were dead . . “please . . “ prayed Rafahnin with his eyes closed with his heart terrified as ever . . “please . . “ . . how many minutes pass . . and another . . and another . . there was no sign of Tuitillac guards . . except for the continued dreadful clash of cries and gunshots . . Rafahnin . . slowly again stood up . . still bent to hide himself from the guards . . and looked straight toward Tuitillac . . and looked carefully to see if there was a road for him to walk unnoticed . . Rafahnin looked and looked . . and finally . . there Rafahnin saw a narrow dreary ghastly road on the side of the field with endless tall bushes aligned with endless noise of insects which seemed like a place where no person on earth ever had walked through . . Rafahnin with his eyes fully on the dark endless road walk toward it . . slowly and . . quietly . .
While Rafahnin cautiously walked . . Rafahnin saw women and girls working in the fields of Tuitillac . . lowering their heads when men were walking in front of them . . Rafahnin on alert kept on walking . . Rafahnin then passed by a place where women were gathered washing dishes on one side of a rusted well very silently and quietly . . “Liyulana . . where in the world are you Liyulana . .” shouted out Rafahnin to himself . . Rafahnin whenever he saw girls who looked the same age as Liyulana looked carefully at them . . however Rafahnin could not even catch one sight of Liyulana . . all Rafahnin could see was agonized people who he deeply felt compassion . . along with the gun shot noise . . whip noise . . cries of people . . sharp laughter of men that were constantly heard on and on . . To Rafahnin . . Tuitillac looked like a huge concentration camp . . Here and there did Rafahnin see people abandoned . . women beaten . . Rafahnin did hear about how Tuitillac was formed and how it was like the hell on earth . . yet . . the sight he was looking at was worse than he ever imagined . . Rafahnin kept on walking and walking . . the mud on his body that stuck on when he collapsed now was totally stiff . . Rafahnin felt a little uncomfortable throughout his walk . . though . . Rafahnin continued to walk and walk . . and then suddenly Rafahnin heard voices of people shouting out from afar . . “Tuhletabu he is here . . ” “Tuhletabu . . Tuhletabu . . I heard that name . .”said Rafahnin to himself as though he cannot believe that he heard that name again . . instantly getting furious Rafahnin behind the bushes walked as fast as he could toward where he heard the loud voices . . Rafahnin . . every footstep he took . . felt his heart beat . . the heart beat of frustration and indignation to the point he could not keep his mind straight . . the main purpose of Rafahnin to travel to Tuitillac in the first place was confronting Tuhletabu and saving Liyulana . . and he was not at the least to pass up the opportunity that was presented itself before him . . Rafahnin walked . . and walked . . and finally . . there Rafahnin saw . . Tuhletabu . . at the far end of the village . . the man who kidnapped Liyulana heartlessly inhumanely . . “Liyulana . . “ shouted out Rafahnin within his heart . . with his fist held tightly as ever . . Rafahnin while walking toward where Tuhletabu was . . noticed Tuhletabu was now heading to a woodlike office with a person who was hastily following behind him his head lowered . . who seemed to be followed by other Tuitillac military men . . Rafahin hid himself from the bushes and tried to get close to Tuhletabu . . and . . carefully carefully looked and looked at the man who was following behind Tuhletabu . . and . . Rafahnin . . was . . appalled . . He was shocked to find out . . that the man who was following Tuhletabu was . . Pastor Nuhlewadu . .
“ 저 변하지 않아요 그대 변하지 않는다면 . .
그대 마음 알아요 제가 보는것과 무관히 . .
그대 볼수 알수 없는 제 이마음이니까요 . .
저 변하지 않아요 그대 변하지 않는다면 . .
Love Would Not Fade no matter how they wanna tear us apart . .
Because I Believe Your Heart Is Within Me . .
Because I Believe My Heart Is Within You . .
Dream Would Not Pass no matter how they wanna tear us apart . . "
“Pastor Nuhlewadu . .” shouted out Rafahnin to himself with a sudden astonishment . . “Pastor Nuhlewadu is captured by Tuhletabu . .” Rafahnin desperately shouted out to himself again . . Rafahnin began to feel sudden frustration . . He was frustrated that there was no other action he could take at the very time . . However . . all of a sudden . . Rafahnin heard a struggle . . He heard a brawl inside the office . . “You need to make sure to capture every person who tries to get away from here Why are the number of people reducing day after day” a person yelled furiously . . Rafahnin because was a little far away from the office could not hear the words clearly and could not figure out who was talking at the time . . yet to Rafahnin . . it seemed like the person who talked was Tuhletabu . . “I am trying to capture them” a person yelled back . . then another person yelled “can we pleae stop" and another yell . . "It is your action to blame" . . To Rafahnin one of the persons who talked was Pastor Nuhlewadu yet cannot figure out for sure . . “Pastor Nuhlewadu . .” weakly said Rafahnin to himself who repeatedly felt bad that there was no other actions he could take . . and then Rafahnin said to himself . . "there are humans who are discourteous blame others and those personality does not change regretfully . . " "God Please . . I Truly Believe You can make them pay the price please god . . " prayed Rafahnin deeply within his heart . . yet the brawl continued . . and . . all of a sudden . . a gun shot rang . . Rafahnin was in horror . . “who pulled the trigger . . who got shot . . what is happening inside the office right now . . Pastor Nuhlewadu . . ” cried Rafahnin besides himself trying to find a way to get near to the office . . And . . all of a sudden . . Rafahnin saw Tuhletabu and his gang walk out of the office . . and . . left . . Rafahnin . . shocked . . collapsed to his knees . . looked at the office . . "Pastor Nuhlewadu . . "
Rafahnin then looked at the far away horizon and cried out with tears slowly filled in his eyes . . "God . . there were times it was truly hard for me to Understand many work of yours . . and at times I would say to myself again and again what is it that I did wrong . . fortunately got my faithful Answer later on between time from my road of life you led me to see and feel . . from then on however strange your work is to me . . My Faith to you has been True Real . . I now Believe your work is not to abandon us yet to protect enlighten us through the dark misty road that will eventually lead to light . . please god . . the Tuitillac regime here has been guided by evil lost in the dark misty road and there is no action I could take to aid . . Please take the evil in the darkness to pay their price . . and Guide the godforsaken regime to your light . . as you did it for me Please please . ."
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Yet suddenly Rafahnin from far beyond the bush heard an agonized scream . . “stop . . stop . .” Rafahnin astounded instantly stood up and ran toward the bush . . And . . to . . his . . dismay . . there he saw Liyulana . . Liyulana . . who tried to get away from a huge man who was about to sexually abuse her . . “Liyulana . . " shouted Rafahnin with inexplicable rage and ran toward the huge man pushed him as hard as he can . . Yet the man did not even budge . . The man then turned to Rafahnin immediately pushed Rafahnin and tossed him apart on the ground . . Liyulana screamed “No . . ” Rafahnin no time to waste instantly stood up again and ran toward the huge man with an “Ahhhhhh” and pushed him as hard as he can again . . however Rafahnin was tossed apart again . . Pain Rafahnin felt in his body yet again Rafahnin stood up right away . . and while Rafahnin was standing up he spotted a hard wood right next to him . . Rafahnin as he felt the man approaching him to give him another toss . . Rafahnin instantly picked up the hard wood and hit the man on the forehead as hard as he can right before the man was about to toss Rafahnin down . . The huge man collapsed . . and in that instant . . Rafahnin threw away the wood and dashed toward Liyulana . . “Liyulana . .”
Liyulana with tears in her eyes reached out for Rafahnin . . “Liyulana . . you are alright now . . you are . . alright . .” Rafahnin put her in his heart as tight as he can . . unconsciously kissed her on the forehead . . comforted her weary heart . . and without a word Rafahnin and Liyulana stayed in Peace for a while without single intrusion of the sudden grateful quietness in the godforsaken land . . Rafahnin prayed the words of gratitude . . and prayed for the stop of time . . for there was none Rafahnin yearned for than Liyulana by his side . . Rafahnin tightly held Liyulana dearly looked at her . . Liyulana looked weak frail . . Rafahnin . . all of a sudden thought there was not a ground he and Liyulana have to be in this deadly land cried . . “Liyualana Let’s get out of here . . ” Then suddenly . . Rafahnin remembered . . Pastor Nuhlewadu . . Rafahnin quietly looked at Liyulana and said . .“Liyulana . . Pastor Nuhlewadu is here . . Tuitillac” Liyulana looked at Rafahnin with astonishment . . “Yet . . I feel like he is killed by Tuhletabu . .” “No no . .” cried Liyulana in despair . . “Then . . we gotta find Pastor Nuhlewadu and see whether he is alright . .” “Yes . ." said Rafahnin determinedly and . . as he and Liyulana began to stand up . . suddenly . . Rafahnin . . felt a blow of hit on his head . .
Rafahnin . . collpased . .
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Rafahnin . . abruptly . . woke up . . Rafahnin . . then . . felt a huge tight pain in his head . . Rafahnin shouted with pain . . and suddenly astonished of the deep darkness he hastily looked about where he was . . and then he felt another pain in his arms . . Rafahnin then realized he was lying with his arms tied up . . he tried to sit up to get loose . . Yet suddenly . . Rafahnin heard a rustling noise a little far away from him . . Rafahnin . . startled hurriedly looked toward the noise . . There . . Rafahnin saw a figure far away from him in a similar situation like him all tied up twitching as though it was getting an electric shock . . Rafahnin suddenly feeling the creeps and the fear he dreadfully wanted to avoid . . began to shout out . . “what are you there . . what are you there . .” and suddenly . . Rafahnin saw the figure approaching closer and closer to him with its twitch . . Rafahnnin with horror hastily crawled back with his arms still tied up . . Rafahnin crawled and crawled until there was no space back . . Rafahnin tightly attached on the back wall stayed still on alert . . and eyed the figure . . as his mouth got drier and drier . . the figure . . gradually . . slowly came out of the dark . . the figure had his mouth tied up . . and had a huge grey bruise on his forehead . . Rafahnin . . shouted out in dismay . . “you . . you are the human in the dungeon . .” Rafahnin . . confused . . “then . . then . . I am . . at Halviune . .” . . “how could I be . .” Rafahnin . . then suddenly remembered Liyulana . . yes Litulana . . “Where is Liyulana . . Where is Liyulana . .” desperately shouted out Rafahnin . . Rafahnin instantly started to look about from where he was still tightly tied up . . and then Rafahnin found a sharp protruded rock stuck in the wall . . Rafahnin crawled toward the rock as fast as he can . . and put his back toward the rock and started to rub his tied rope on his wrist to cut the rope . . Rafahnin felt pain excruciating within him . . however did not stop . . Rafahnin continued to rub his tied rope with a painful frown on his face with the constant painful groan . . How many minutes passed . . Rafahnin . . finally felt his rope . . cut off . . Rafahnin with a huge shout of relief . . hurriedly untied himself from the rope . . nonchalantly instantly stood up and dashed toward the dungeon door and began to pull it as hard as he can . . the human . . from a little far away quietly looked at Rafahnin . . Rafahnin abruptly looked at the human while he was still pulling the dungeon door . . disturbed and frightened did he feel . . yet Rafahnin had no time to lose . . he continued to pull the door as hard as he can . . as he cried out . . as his eyes his heart permeated with terrified and painful tears . . “Liyulana . . Liyulana . . ”
and then . . all of a sudden . . Rafahnin felt the dungeon gate pushed guardedly by itself on the other side toward him . . Rafahnin horrified hastily stepped back nearly tripped . . yet . . the dungeon gate . . continued to get closer . . and closer toward Rafahnin . .
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Rafahnin . . held his breath with his body in full sweat tightly attached to the wall . . and there he saw . . on the other side of the dark dungeon gound . . a dark huge figure . . a dark huge figure stood in the dark . . and . . all of a sudden . . Rafahnin . . to his horror . . heard fast tensed footsteps as he saw the figure dart toward him . . Rafahnin . . in terror . . shouted in fear totally losing his grip . . yet then . . Rafahnin . . astoundedly . . shouted out with anguish . . “Tuhletabu . .” it was . . Tuhletabu . . who hurriedly grabbed Rafahnin . . “No no . . get off of me . . you get off of . . me . .” cried out Rafahnin as he tried to struggle to get loose from him . . “Look boy . . Walk up . . Now . . Hurry . .” shouted out Tuhletabu sternly as he dragged Rafahnin out of the dungeon and pushed him toward the stairs . . “Hurry . .” shouted out Tuhletabu to Rafahnin as loudly as ever . . Rafahnin in sudden fear by the raucous shout . . reluctantly stepped on the steps in front . . yet instantly resisted and stopped hastily turned back and begin to cry out . . “Where is . . Liyulana . . Where is . . Liyulana . .” “I said walk up “ tensely shouted Tuhletabu . . “No . .” infuriately shouted back Rafahnin . . “Where is . . Liyulana . . Where is . . Liyulana . . and . . Pastor Nuhlewadu . . You killed . . Pastor Nuhlewadu . . ” and as soon as Rafahnin finished shouting out his words Rafahnin in sudden horror did see Tuhletabu dart toward Rafahnin looking straight at him . . Rafahnin in an instant fright hurriedly turned back to run away . . yet then . . did Rafahnin feel Tuhletabu grab him and began to drag him up the stairs . . Rafahnin again subdued by his sudden terrified fear could not say another word walked up the stairs as he was dragged on and on by Tuhletabu . .
And finally . . as soon as Rafahnin arrived at the top of the stairs . . to his horror . . there . . he saw . . Pastor Nuhlewadu . . kneeled with his body tied to a rope his eyes blind folded and shouting out to Tuhletabu who was right behind Rafahnin . . “you will pay for this you traitor” . . “Pastor Nuhlewadu . .” abruptly shouted out Rafahnin a little relieved yet at the same time terrified to see Pastor Nuhlewadu tied and blind folded . . which is how the Tuitillac military usually prepare before they execute people . . “Pastor Nuhlewadu . . No . . No . . Is Pastor Nuhlewadu gonna be executed is he . .” “Am . . am I . . gonna be executed too . . what about Liyulana where is Liyulana . . God . . what is happening to me and . . where is Liyulana . . where where . . ” Rafahnin suddenly felt his heart sink to the ground and the chill permeating into him as though he was gonna faint . . “is this how I am gonna die . . without Liyulana . . God . . is it . . ”
And . . all of a sudden . . Rafahnin heard a voice call from afar . . “Rafahnin . . Rafahnin . .” He heard a voice . . a beloved familiar voice . . voice he wanted to desperately hear . . voice he desperately wanted it now to be by his side . . it was . . Liyulana . . Rafahnin yearnfully hurriedly looked toward the direction where the voice was heard . . and yes . . it was Liyulana . . Liyulana . . Rafahnin could not believe his eyes . . there was Liyulana with a little blanket on herself with a bottle of water dash toward Rafahnin . . “Liyulana . .” desperately heartfeltedly shouted out Rafahnin who began to dash toward Liyulana . .
And instantly . . Rafahnin heard a voice behind him . .
“You are alright boy . . You are safe now . . ” Rafahnin stopped . . and astoundedly looked back . . it was . . Tuhletabu . . who lightly patted Rafahnin on the shoulder as he gently gave him a bottle of water . . “what . . what has happened . . who are you . . why . . ” Rafahnin asked with confusion in dismay . . “Rafahnin . .” said Tuhletabu . . “I am a confidential agent from IBIA ( = International Bureau of Investigation and Apprehension) . . The person you believed to be pastor Nuhlewadu of the village is the leader of Tuitillac who is an infamous terrorist wanted by IBIA for years . . Me and our squad team have been disguised as members of Tuitillac . . which took years for us to be recruited as the Tuitillac terrorist members . . and our main purpose is to first get the detained survived people out of this area and then arrest the terrorists group . . There are a number of international bureau squad team like us who are hidden from the world who risk their very lives to prove that peace still prevails who fight against real terrorist groups that are the main cause of disruption of world peace and constant violation of human rights and we are now one of the institutions that has proved that the task works . . We believe the end of terrorist groups will be unfolded by the very Tuitillac members inside Tuitillac . . by human like us . . and . . we altogether will realistically continue our tasks until we could put an end to all terrorists group remained in the world . . ” Rafahnin . . was . . too shocked . . yet . . at the same time . . unconsciously felt inspired tears spread into his vein his heart deeply touched by the unexpected words . . of Tuhletabu . . yet . . still confused . . Rafahnin wanted to speak yet too astonished by the sudden situation . . slowly did Rafahnin look at Tuhletabu . . and begin to stammer . . “how . . however . . the church was here even before I was brought here . . then . . then who . . who . . was the real pastor . ."
“I am . .” Rafahnin suddenly heard a voice behind him . . Rafahnin . . astounded hurriedly turned back . . and there he saw a man . . a huge grey bruise on his forehead . . it was . . the human . . in the dungeon . . once he thought was the member of Tuitillac . . who was an evil . . human . . who killed his parents . . “I am Pastor Jahunele . . Rafahnin . . after Tuitillac lead by Nuhlewadu invaded our Halviune village . . and after killing the people in the village who resisted . . he put me into the dungeon and . . acted as though he were the pastor . . until now . . ” Rafahnin was . . was . . shocked . . “then . . then my parents and parents of Liyulana . . was it Nuhlewadu . . was it . . Nuhlewadu who killed . . our parents . .” Pastor Jahunele without a word nodded . . and closed his eyes in prayer . . Rafahnin was shocked . . was hurt . . deeply . . inexplicably hurt . . The person Rafahnin relied on who he believed ever since he was a child . . was the very person . . who killed . . their parents . . “Nuhlewadu killed many people with his weapons and with his words . .” said Pastor Jahunele . . “regretfully . . there are inhumane people in this world who look good outside yet evil inside . . it is easy to deceive pretend to be people they are not in bad faith to get what one wants . . which is inhumane evil because it inflict pain to others . . however evil does not care about the pain of others as long as the evil could get what it wants . . yet . . as much as the deception and pretentious act was as easy as it was on its part . . life of Nuhlewadu and the like will be in pain and agony from now . . Time is generally on the side of Goodness . . for now will be the very time Nuhelwadu will pay the price because Life is Fair . . what you done harm to others . . again . . your price will indefinitely be paid . . Nobody . . could ever . . get away with it . .” and with those words . . Pastor Jahunele closed his eyes again in prayer . .
Rafahnin . . absentmindedly dumbstricken . . began to . . walk slowly . . toward Nuhlewadu . . who was kneeled tied up and blind-folded . .
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Rafahnin looked at Nuhlewadu . . Tuhletabu walked toward Nuhlewadu and untied the knots and fastly rapidly pulled the blindfold from his eyes . . “Rafahnin . .” quietly called out Liyulana helplessly looking at Rafahnin with painful and confused tears in her eyes . . He looked at her . . and as soon as Rafahnin saw the tears in her eyes . . Rafahnin got angry angry . . he got furious furious . . how could he . . how could . . have he to us . . To Us . . Rafahnin couldn’t stand it . . Rafahnin bursted into rage and rage . . angrily dashed toward Nuhlewadu . . “Why . . Why . .” painfully shouted out Rafahnin in despair . . “why . . why . . did you . . why did you have to kill . . our parents . . why did you have to kill anybody . . what is the purpose of your acts . . what is that you gain from these acts . . is it the illusory authority only you yourself consider as exclusive . . a deceitful authority that you wanna make every person feel threatened by you . . an authority to make other people feel weak to make yourself strong . . an authority that is only temporary and short-lived at the end . . why . . why . . Nuhlewadu . . what ever made you hate and control people . . what ever has made you turn yourself against the world . . what ever has made you turn evil like this . . what ever made you not see the light . . were you not the one who told us that life is fair and you get what you give . . the pain you give double the pain you get . . and look at you . . what has become of you . . is it this that you wanted . . be the slave to your own delusion greed at the end . . answer me . . Answer Me . .” shouted Rafahnin tears filled with hurt pain agony betrayal . . “I believed you . . I respected you . . I trusted you . . I loved you . . as My very faith . . my lone . . Faith . . “ Rafahnin yelled and yelled . . and helplessly collapsed . . kneeled . . in front of Nuhlewadu who was kneeled in front afar . . “Why . . why . . Nuhlewadu . . Nuhlewadu . . answer me . . Answer Me . .” Rafahnin wailed and wailed shouted and shouted looking at Nuhlewadu as though he wanted to break off the evilness inside Nuhlewadu for good . . It seemed as though the world was subdued by total silent tension . . between Rafahnin . . and Nuhlewadu . .
Nuhlewadu wordlessly astounded looked at Rafahnin . . with that . . Tuhletabu shouted out to the IBIA squad agents who were aligned afar . . “take him away now” the IBIA squad agents with his words quickly approached Nuhlewadu grabbed him dragged him and put him in the prisoner transport vehicle and . . left . . Liyulana . . slowly from far walked toward Rafahnin . . “Rafahnin . .” quietly in pain called out Liyulana . . Rafahnin . . his eyes filled in tears looked at Liyulana . . “Liyulana . .” Rafahnin shouted out grabbed her into his heart . . “Liyulana . . Now we are together and We will always be together Liyulana . . no matter what will be by Your side . . Always . .” and held her tight . . as Liyulana held Rafahnin tight too . . as though they wanted . . the time to stop . . “please . . God . .”
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A week have passed . . and . . another week . . and another . . Rafahnin and Liyulana later get to know . . Nuhlewadu . . took his own life in the cell . . while he was waiting trial to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity . . war crime . . genocide . . crime of aggression at the International Humane Criminal Tribunal . . and Rafahnin and Liyulana . . later on that day before the sunset . . received a note from the legal authority at their home . . a note Nuhlewadu left . . which read as follows . .
“Rafahnin . . Liyulana . . the world where I came from since I was a child was an abusive disruptive world of abandonment . . poverty . . ignore . . torture . . It was the world I could not fit in yet had to where I myself learned that in order to survive . . to step on the people that stepped on me . . I needed to be stronger than any other person I confront . . and in order for me to be stronger than any other person and to defend myself from them . . the only tools that were laid in front of me at the time were . . weapons and hateful words that I have received from those people ever since . . the weapons and hateful words that made people to step on me and be the whipper . . and one day when I finally get to have the hold on those tools for myself . . the purpose of my life which was merely to survive . . changed . . greed and vanity began to grow inside me . . I desired to have what I could not have until then . . I desired to conquer people to show them that I was not a failure in the past . . I desired to show the world how much of a man I could be . . I desired to be in control of every person near my radar and allowed no refusal denial . . covered by people . . the same people in the same world with same purpose and same notion . . disregarding every other part of the world that I could not see then . . Yet . . Rafahnin and Liyulana . . I now realize there is another world that weapons and hateful words are needless . . It was hard for me to see and acknowledge the new world where now I see is filled with belief and respect . . trust and love . . where you guided me with your words Rafahnin . . through your heartfelt words . . that you believed me respected me trusted me and loved me . . the words nobody has ever said to me until this very time . . your truthful words has unbelievably led me to find peace in myself and see a new world . . yet . . at the same time . . filled with inexplicable pain and regret that I now know cannot ever be forgiven by the many . . I will . . pay my price to the pain I incurred to those . . I will . . until the day my irrecoverable sin and misdeed could be forgiven by the people I kneel before . . And . . to those . . to those who are incurring pain to the innocent at this very time . . Beg you not to . . you might feel like you are right . . you might feel like every person respects you . . you might feel like you have it all . . you might feel like you will get away with it . . however . . you are absolutely wrong . . Now my life is at its end stage . . I realized that I was wrong . . I realized the world has no space for deceitful hate and conflict . . because those who yield deceitful hate and conflict against others . . will be destroyed by them . . Authority given to you through forced lies and pretension is temporary and will end fatally against you . . yet . . Authority that is given to you through your effort heartfelt good deed is eternal . . Throw away your weapons and hateful words . . I beg you . . Before you end up like me . . Because . . unless . . you stop . . it is a matter of time . . you will end up like me . . undoubtedly . . you will . . because life is fair . . because you get what you give . . you will . . you will . . and . . Rafahnin . . Liyulana . . forgive me . . of what I did to your parents . . of the harmful lies and pain I incurred to you both . . one day when the time is right . . I beg you to forgive me . . I will pay the price and will be tortured suffer in the afterlife of mine . . incessantly . . get what I have given to you and many others . . I will . . and . . Lastly . . Rafahnin Liyulana . . would you . . could you . . ever . . hold on to our past memories . . though I am gone . . for . . believe it or not . . during the times we were together . . deep part inside me . . my love for you . . Rafahnin Liyulana . . was true and real . .”
Rafahnin and Liyulana . . was quiet . . felt the hurt and sadness altogether deep deep within their hearts . . and for a while . . delibitated . . tightly closed their eyes . . and prayed . .
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Rafahnin . . a little while after . . with Liyulana . . carefully grabbed a little wooden cross boards near by his desk . . and slowly began to write on the boards . . and after a few minutes later . . Rafahnin with Liyulana . . with the note of Nuhlewadu and the wooden board walked out of their home . .
And began to walk toward the infamous wired border that was stood between the light of Halviune village and the Zahgnia desert . . and as they arrived at the very middle of the border . . Rafahnin with Liyulana . . began to slowly and carefully dug a little grave for burial . . and then . . reverently quietly put the note Nuhlewadu left them inside the grave . . slowly covered it with the sand near by . . and then . . gently put the cross board on top of the little grave written . . “Evil Guided To Light . . Forgiven Rest In Peace . . ”
Terrorist groups and certain rep of countries who try to control the vulnerable against their will due to their greed vain ambition extreme selfworship conventional ideology . . Please Understand . . No matter how much power No matter how much force you yourself seem to have . . hidden faith of Goodness within a few always will exist to Prevail . . Because Fairness and Truth is Always on our side . . History tells History remembers . . It is easy to deceive others yet you cannot deceive yourself along with your uncovered fear inside you that even the darkest faith itself sided with you knows how your fate will eventually end . .
yet Gratefully . . Because there exist Humans with Goodness and Honesty who tries to make a real difference especially those hidden from the public . . I Believe we still have the Peace Heart within us we Realistically could look forward to . . Deeply Thank You to those truthful People who sacrificed themselves to make our world a better place who are the very light . . whether they are still with us or now beyond our world . . Thank you again deeply from the very bottom of our Heart . . and Dear victims of terrorism violence . . please remember . . Pain you suffered will not be forgotten . . and You will not be forgotten . . Rest in Peace . .
Let’s Together Pray For victims of terrorism violence . .
Amen . .
I Appreciate to those who have read my short fiction Until Now . .
Looking forward to our Film Project in the near future Soon . .
Thank You for the Heartfelt People that will be involved in advance . .
Thank You again and deeply hope you continue to have a Pleasant and a Peaceful day . .
