You Ask, I Suspect, The Mountain Answer

"Can you tell what the 'brave' is?" he said. That big guy made him little bit curios about this adventure, and especially the brave

"It's not about the right time when you should attack, but it's about forgiving." he replied with reluctantly tone.

"Am I afraid enough to hide myself from the darkness? so, where is the light that they were talking about?"

That tiny man almost pissed him off, but he stopped and stare right in his eyes.

"Hear... they just were talking about a tale. The light, the darkness, the peace... it was a lie. They lied. The light that you were asking to is in  your heart. If you don't make any move, you'll trapped by your own darkness. Did you understand? Now, let's go! Don't asking about something worthless. We should arrive to the mountain before the sunset. And without your babblement, of course." 

Tiny man is just a tiny man. He could not slap that big guy face, or hitting him with all of the power he had even though he were angry. He always knew, physical attack doesn't effective for a big guy like him---attacking with those tiny body,pfft---, but ingenuity do.

and--wait, ingenuity? That's it!

He picked a lithe root and ran onto the small hill. The root has been tied on the top of tree, it made the trees bow and blocking the footpath.

"Hey, what are you thinking about? You blocked the way!"

"No, no, no! I'm not blocking. I will show you a shortcut" he laughed.

"You stupid tiny man. There is no shortcut! Get out my way!" the big guy got angry.

"Indeed" 

The big guy stare at him with anger. He thought he was tricked.

"A big guy like you, may not believe about the light, the darkness, or anything like that. and how do about little things, like shortcut way?"

He seemed little bit calm down, the tiny man smiled in victory.

"Let's have a guessing game!"

"Oh, come on! We don't have any time to do something like-"

"No, no! this game played with an agreement."

He was in silence. Tired with this tiny friend behavior, but seemed excited with it.

"So, what's the agreement?"

"If you win, I will show you the shortcut way. but, If I win..." the tiny man tapped his own chin. He pretended to thinking, and the big guy knew it. "You should answer my last question."

The big guy laughed. What did he say? Answer his last question? It was a weirdest agreement ever.

"Why do you laugh?"

"Because you are crazy. You are weird." he didn't stop laughing. This made the tiny man angry.

Okay, he felt not that smart either. He started to not care about ingenuity.

"Why should I do this game? You always asking and I always answering you. Even though your question isn't worthless at all, but I keep answering you, right? You think that 'without your babblement' is the last question that you could ask that time?"

the  tiny man sighed. He was thinking too much.

"Yeah.... yeah! I know! Stop laughing!"

That command words made the big guy laughed louder and louder. And then, SLAP!

The tiny man slapped him.

Hmm... he  seemed doesn't care about ingenuity anymore, really. If a physical attack works on a certain moment, why not?

"Stop laughing, I said! You big guy! Why'd you gonna be so impolite to someone smaller than you! Someone like me!"

"Nope. It was because your short mind." He rubbed his cheeks. It doesn't hurt at all.

"Okay! Okay! New agreement! I ask, you answer. If I satisfied with your answer, I will show you the shortcut!"

"Hey! The one who is impolite is you, man! I don't allow you to change the agreement!"

"I don't ask for your approval."

"You stupid tiny man. Go ahead! What is your question?"

The tiny man take a deep breath. It seemed an important question.

"How if the light, the darkness, the peace, and the fairy tale they told are real?"

Silence. The big guy felt like laughing, but he didn't. This question is funny, but confusing at the same time. He started to doubt himself. They were lie? Yeah? It's just an answer with nonsense.

If the answer is really yes, why should they gone this far? What are they searching for all this time? A mountain?

No. There must be something important inside the mountain, but he didn't know anything about it. How if the light inside the mountain? or the darkness? or maybe, the mountain is a place where the light and the darkness came together?

This would be a mystery. No, no!--not in forever. This gonna be resolved. Something they hide, something they find it again. Or they purposed it to be forgotten?

"So, what is your answer?" the tiny man waited.

"My answer is in that mountain." He saw the mountain from the distance.

"That mountain will answer all of our question."

"Our question? It's my ques-"

"Not again. Forget about our agreement. Now, you ask, I suspect, the mountain answer." He stare the mountain with the flash of excitement in his eyes. "Prepare yourself, tiny man. This gonna be a great adventure and a new 'fairy tale' to be told!"

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