A minute later, her father and mother had crouched down beside her, looking at the stone with awed and astonishment.

"That the stone paradox of time?" Her mother whispered.

"Yes it is."

Senja lifted her head and looked at her father who still refused to see her. Instead of the stone he looked at the ground beneath him gloomily.

"Dad…" Senja called out her father softly as she nudged his arms. "You don't want to say something to me?"

Her father didn't budge whatsoever, looking at her husband spiritless expression and her worried daughter, she elbowed the man beside her to draw his attention.

"What?" Senja's father snapped irritably at his wife.

"Don't you want to say something to our daughter?" She raised her eyebrows.

"If I say something will she stay?!"

"So, you will watch her go without saying a word!?"

The man scoffed while the woman glared, but finally, he looked over at his daughter and with morose he spoke. "Can't you stay?"

Looking at her father who was like an overgrown child who was sulking, Senja moved next to him and hugged her father tightly. "I am sorry dad." She whispered.

It took only two second before his ignorant façade crumbled under his daughter warm hugged. "What travel time! I want my daughter here!" He growled along with that there was a soft sobbing that could be heard echoed inside the cave. "I need to see your man and talk many things to him. He must treat my daughter well, he must take care of you, he mustn't raise his voice against you… but, how can I say all of that if I will not be able to see him!?"

Her father was very emotional at this moment while Senja had cried the moment her father hugged her back. Hence she was just listening to his complaint.

"I want to see and stand beside you in your wedding day, but how can I do that now!?" He grumbled in dissatisfied.

His tears has stained Senja's shirt and pooled on her shoulder, Senja had never seen her father was crying so heartbroken like this. Beside them, her mother engulfed both of them in her embraced, kept chanting the words 'everything will alright' over and over again.

It took more than half an hour before her father finally calm down. Wiping his tears away, the family of three looked at each other sullenly.

"So, what are you going to say to my brothers if I disappear?" Senja asked curiously as she sniveled. But, her father answered almost made Senja choked in her sob.

"You elope with stranger." Her father said without thinking.

"Dad!"

"What?" Her father raised his eyebrows. "Your mother eloped with me."

With that, he was earning a hard slap on his back from his wife.

"You make that thing sound cool!" Senja's mother scolded.

"That's cool though." He retorted while standing up. "So, that the stone paradox of time, I guess?"

Senja gave the small stone to her father's hand which reached out with opened palm. He gripped the stone between his thumbs and forefinger carefully.

"You can get everything you want with this." Her father mumbled. "There is someone wanted to pay handsomely for this stone."

"Dad…" Senja opened her palm, silently asked for the stone. "I want be with him…"

He looked up and down between Senja's hand and her determined face, in the end with heavy sighed, he handed the stone and hugged his daughter tightly.

"I will miss you baby…"

"I will miss you dad…"

After that her mother took her turned to hug and kiss her daughter as she whispered sweet words to her ears.

The farewell filled with tears and reluctant, but Senja's glad to see her parents for the last time and their support for her decision was meant a world for her.

With smiled on their faces, Senja stilled her heart, put the stone on the ground and stepped on it.

With the last cried that could be heard, Senja felt the familiar warm and bright sensation engulfed her body and gradually her parents' voices ceased down into nothing.