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Chapter 41 - The Gift

Someone stood near a bench in a park. He kept glancing at his wristwatch.

It was later than evening. The sun had set hours ago.

After a few more seconds of waiting, a car approached the man in the park. It stopped down right behind him.

It was Hakiten near the bench.

He turned back towards the car and moved closer to it, right in front of its window.

Within a second, the window moved down slowly.

Inside the car there sat Genido.

Hakiten glanced on either side before asking him why he had called him.

Genido looked into his eyes and asked Hakiten to move to the trunk.

A soft smile stayed on his face, maybe a fake one.

Hakiten did not say anything and moved as he had been doing.

As he moved back, Genido opened the car door and after a couple of seconds he found himself near the trunk with Hakiten.

Hakiten could ask anything.

Genido opened the trunk.

The door moved upward slowly.

Inside it there was something. Two big boxes and a small one.

The big ones were similar, but the small one was different. Strange.

As Hakiten looked at them, he stared at them for a while.

From outside they appeared ordinary.

Hakiten asked him what was inside them.

Genido smiled immediately and said it was a gift for him.

While looking at the boxes, Hakiten's eyes shifted from the boxes to Genido and asked him what should he do with the boxes.

Hakiten's voice stayed low.

Genido exhaled sharply and asked Hakiten what would he do with a gift.

Hakiten did not say a word, but before he could say anything else, Genido asked him to take those boxes to his house.

Within a few minutes, Hakiten fitted those two boxes onto his bike.

A heavy-built bike stood far from that car.

Hakiten had the small box in his hands while Genido stood beside his car.

Both of them were in front of each other but also far from each other.

After a couple of seconds, Genido entered his car and without waiting any second longer, he drove away.

Before that, he told Hakiten to do what he told him to do.

Hakiten did not even move his bike.

He waited there and saw Genido's car moving away.

After a few seconds, he drifted his bike away.

His speed remained constant.

Hakiten had placed the big boxes behind his back while the small one stayed in front of him on the petrol tank.

On the way to his home, Hakiten's eyes stayed ahead on the road.

After a few seconds, a voice came into his head.

Someone calling him.

"Hakiten... Hakiten..."

The voice was loud.

The voice was not from his back, but after a blink of an eye he was back to the hospital.

Juson sat in front of him.

Juson asked him to say something.

As Hakiten heard that, he still did not say anything.

But a second later, Juson said he had to ask something before hakiten tells about the incident.

Hakiten paused for a second. His eyes became sharp and he asked Juson what he wanted to tell him.

After his response, Juson did not say it directly and after waiting for a couple of seconds he told Hakiten that he visited the house after the incident.

As Juson said that, Hakiten said that he was with his family and asked Juson why he came back.

Juson paused after Hakiten asked him, but he wanted to say more and after being silent for a few seconds Juson continued and told Hakiten that the doors were broken and the house was dusty.

Hakiten did not say a word as he was hearing what he had not seen yet.

And at last Juson said he saw a blue sand in his room and he thinks it is called Zerre.

Juson's last words seemed more like questions rather than facts.

Juson paused after finishing his words and was expecting an answer from Hakiten, but he was somewhere else.

He had frozen on his bed again.

After a few seconds Hakiten spoke, but not an answer.

Another question.

He asked if Juson had touched that blue sand or not.

Juson did not waste any seconds.

He said he had touched that thing.

As Hakiten heard that, his head turned away from him and his body leaned back gradually like he had realised something important.

After a couple of seconds Hakiten asked Juson if he could remember a person.

Genido.

Hakiten stayed leaned back while Juson pressured his brain to recognise that name.

While Juson was working on his memories, Hakiten helped him.

He started to describe Genido's appearance.

A heavy-built man, short beard and at last Hakiten said he used to work with both of them.

After a few seconds, the fragment of that day when Genido showed him a blue and red sand demonstration appeared.

But Juson's words were not about Genido.

It was about Hakiten.

Juson said Hakiten was late that day and after that he said someone came to call us.

And after that Juson became silent, but still something was going on inside his head.

Hakiten leaned forward and looked into Juson's eyes and said whatever was happening with Juson had two outcomes at the same time.

One bad and one good.

Juson did not get what he was trying to say.

Hakiten asked Juson not to think about anything and just let it go for now.

Juson frowned and leaned back on the chair.

The room became silent, but it could not last longer.

Juson began to speak again, but this time something clicked in his mind.

A part of some memories.

He said that the blue is unstable and the red is stable.

Those words sounded like he knew about what he was saying.

Juson looked into Hakiten's eyes, but Hakiten was busy somewhere else.

After a couple of seconds Hakiten spoke that he owed Juson something.

Juson realised he had to not think about anything.

After a few seconds of silence Hakiten told Juson that whatever he was thinking or what happened to Juson was a good thing for Juson.

And Hakiten assured Juson that he would explain everything.

But Hakiten continued his words and wanted to say something.

Like before that they had to do something and cut off his sentence.

Juson did not get what Hakiten said later, but he had not to ask him again as after a second Hakiten said he had a big problem.

Not only him but also Juson.

A problem bigger than the house incident.

Juson asked him what was the problem.

This conversation seemed never-ending.

As Juson quickly asked about the problem, Hakiten's face slowly became numb like he was too pained by the problem.

Hakiten stayed silent for a couple of seconds and said that Juson's question was wrong.

He continued with the correction.

"It is not what is the problem..."

"...but who."

That response somehow made Juson silent along with the room.

But the silence did not stay long.

Not in Hakiten's hospital room, but somewhere else

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