Chapter 88: The Rain Ritual

They were all having breakfast together the next morning when a middle-aged man came to the house. He was the one who asked the old lady who those strangers she were with when they were at the farm the other day.

“What is it, Beniamin?” Agota asked the visitor.

“I am sent by the villagers to ask your granddaughter to perform in our annual Păpăruda.”

The old woman glanced at Aniko.

“She is too young for it, and she cannot dance,” Agota said with...