"Look at my uncle! I had never seen him in this childish state." Suzie spoke to Babida who giggled.

"Oh, let me hang fast these clothes and hopefully within the next three hours, they would be dry.” declared the young maiden as she remembered.

Suzie placed the outfits on top of the plant's leaves as uncle Bibi came out of the water.

"What a replenishing river! I feel like in my twenties." The elderly man confessed.

He cut a few leaves that he wrapped around his waist and commenced moving them circularly at t a slow then rapid pace. The moves were those of the Batang empire's folkloric dance, the...