This earthquake didn't wait for humans to noticed, or was that the goal?
I didn't understand how to give a calculation of how big the earthquake, but what I could give is the sky seems to be shaking too. Several houses began to collapse, trees also fell. Sawarga ran with carrying me in her arm and grabbed her mother. If I could talk and have more time to tell, I would show the direction where all the animals had gone.
Everyone was running around in panic, ignoring whatever their possessions were. If they had pay attention before, they would realized that nature has often given many signs of its anger to human activities, but they are too ignorant. And now, as if earthquakes were not enough, nature was also showing its anger through the sea which often becomes a witness to human cruelty. The high seawater threw itself right where everyone was running in fear. Not too big but make more difficult for us to save ourselves.
Before the sea gave the second wave, Sawarga fell and tripped over the ruins of a construction and her leg was crushed by another construction. Mother tried to let go but it was so difficult with the shaking that was getting bigger and the humans that kept running around them. Everything happened so fast, Sawarga grabbed me and said, "I'm sorry, Bhumi, there's no more time. I'll throw you, get ready," then she really threw me as hard as she could. I landed on a tree trunk far from Sawarga and mother. My eyes shed tears. Before I had time to think about turning back, the second wave swept the land again. I ran away with tears that could not stop.
Everything was so fast.
The next day I returned to the place and saw that many evacuation teams and nurses had arrived. It didn't need long time for me to find the bodies of Sawarga and mother. I followed wherever they were taken until I finally arrived at the graves of the victims.
A few days after the place was trying to recover, a new rule was put in place to not allowed children to be out later than ten at night. Parents were also urged to pay more attention to the society of their children. This incident will be remembered as a warning to local residents that all humans have exceeded the limit in bad things to make nature angry.
I returned to the beach where Sawarga and I were always together. Again I remembered a legendary story which was told by Sawarga about this place. Until I realized that Sawarga-Parama and Bhumi-Bawana have the same meaning.
Then we are only a representation of stories in the past.
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