“Keep going! Although it’s bored. We have a long time here, anyway.” Sung pretends to get bored already and he just wants to kill time. Wendy smiles, she is a very good storyteller. She takes a piece of wood out, making a little dark around. With the sound of the cold wind blowing into the big empty cave. He story begins.
“The story happened in a big hospital. What is a hospital? It’s a big place where you keep patients and medicines, same as our clinic on the street. Just bigger than ours. Well, there is a secret place where we keep the dead bodies, we called the morgue…” She makes her voice down, to make it scary. “Well, that’s impossible! We never keep the dead people in the clinic! People must die at home, that’s our tradition! Then their souls can get peace!” Sung interrupts her story again.
“Can you please not stop me in the middle?! Why can’t you just listen quietly? You would make this thrilling atmosphere funny!” Wendy complains. “But it doesn’t make any sense!” Sung replies proudly. “Then I won’t keep going!” Wendy pretends to get mad. Sung sighs, “All right! I won’t stop you from now on. Keep going.” It’s such a long night, Sung doesn’t like getting bored. Meanwhile, he feels this story quite interesting. Wendy continues.
“Wendy, she is the main doctor in this hospital. One night, she takes some extra work here, because there are many patients, who get injured from car accident. Two carriages bumped into each other, many people were thrown out from the carriages, that’s why they were sent to the hospital tonight. Some people are saving in a place called emergency room; while some were sent to the morgue because they were dead!” Wendy takes another piece of wood out of the bonfire. “Wendy’s job just cures the patients tonight, but somehow she has no choice to take the patients’ families, a mother, to recognize the body that night. On the way to the morgue, it’s dark, her eyes get dizzy because the lack of sleep.
They walk to the entrance of the morgue, suddenly! A dead woman was carrying out! She wore a red dress, her eyes were open wide. She had threw out of the carriage by accident! A big clear hole still on her forehead! The mother starts to cry when she sees that woman, that’s her daughter. Then I, no, Wendy, she asks someone to take the mother out.
“Doctor…” Wendy looks back, she hears a small sad voice running to her ears. The woman in red sits behind her on the morgue bed! The dark red blood run out of the big hole on her forehead! “Ahhh…” Wendy yells out, she’s too frightened that moment! Later on, the dead woman was burned, still, every night some people can hear a woman’s voice calling, “Mom… I’m cold…”
Suddenly, Wendy turns to Sung, “Are you cold? Your majesty?” Which makes him shrill a little. “Well, of course! You took those woods out, it’s cold!” Sung shrugs his shoulder, to be honest, he gets scared that moment, but he pretends he’s fine!
“Fine, I’m putting them back.” Wendy puts the woods back, then asks, “What about another one, your majesty?” Sung shakes his head, “No, it’s not scary at all! I don’t want!” Wendy smiles, “I will tell you a terrifying one next, how’s that sound?” Sung lies down, covering his outfit, “I’m tired.” Wendy sighs, it’s still early for her to sleep. She used to stay up very late. She walks out. It’s dark outside, the gray clouds move fast to here, seems like it’s going to rain. Some insects begin to sing and having their party in the grass. In the 21st century, you can only hear this in some rare mountain. The sounds of insects make her emotional, she thinks of that mother in her story, perhaps, her mom is crying every day like that. She might faint when she went to the morgue to see her daughter on the cold morgue bed. About Wendy, she would never see her family again! Her heart is broken. She begins to weep on the rock.
Sung looks at her, seeing her weeping and crying quietly. He never sees her like that. She must be through something bad during this time. And that’s why she changed a lot? All of a sudden, Sung wants to pee. But he’s scared by her story. He is now regretting how stupid he was at that time to have this story idea! He’s peanut is tickling, he rolls on the ground from time to time. Wendy notices and asks, “Well, I thought you were sleeping.”
Sung peeks at her quickly, “I’m worrying about Princess Zena, that’s why…” Wendy replies sadly, “Yes, I understand, your majesty. I’m not that close to your brother, Prince Zack and his wife. Even I worry about them a lot, not mentioning about you.” She opens the grass, ready to go out.
“Where are you going??” Sung asks in a hurry. “Hmm… I need to pee.” Wendy replies. Sung stands up, “Then I go with you. It’s too dark outside.” Wendy smiles, “Thank you, your majesty!” She does scare of those snakes, not about the story. An expression of pride appears on Sung’s voice, “Well, I don’t want you die, or I can’t explain to my father.” Wendy understands him well, even something happens to her, he can still explain very well. Anything could happen in the mountain.
They walk out, searching a good place to pee, both of them. They are not too far from each other, cause they can hear the sound of peeing together. When they return, they don’t talk. They feel awkward. Very fast, Sung falls asleep, he is fatigued. Wendy doesn’t want to sleep yet, she walks out to pick more woods for the fire. The sun will come out soon, and Wendy only slept about one hour. Strangely, she doesn’t feel tired at all!
They pack up then keep moving to find the miracle plant. They walk for a while, they hear the sound of water, which is a good new for both of them. The plant likes to grow near water. Perhaps, she can find it very soon! A stream appear in their views. The water is clean, Wendy drinks a bit then washes her face, “My God, that’s so cool!” Meanwhile, Sung takes her sketch out, looking around in the grass. Wendy laughs, “Your majesty, the plant won’t grow in the grass. They grow on the stones near water.” Sung glances at her, complains, “Why you didn’t say it earlier?” Wendy jumps up, her energy is back after she cleaned her face.
She looks forward, the beautiful sight touches her, it’s a beautiful valley here. The green hills climb on each other one after one, beneath the creamy blue sky. Different kinds of flowers with different colors, grow wildly near the stream, like some famous valleys in Italy. “Oh look!” She points to a white lily that grows on a big rock. It’s a bunch of Lilies in this area, their white and yellow petals flow by the wind, like pigeons dancing. “Oh look!” Wendy points again, “What? The plant?” Sung asks. “No, it’s a yellowtail butterfly! My God!” Wendy replies with excitement.
“Hey, can you focus, just a little bit? We are here not for fun, we are here for the plant!” Sung yells.