Drums sounded all around the town as people drank and ate. Over by the Mystic, an open cooking area was laid out as countless pots were put over many open fires and with the older women of the town mending them. Sisilana looked happy as the women chatted away with some husbands holding their beer in hand trying to act normal while they slowly crept closer to where the women were so to hear what they were talking about. They knew that in that cooking area, the younger women were getting advice on how to treat their boyfriends and husbands. Over the years, they would always come back home as changed women for at least the first months of the year and it was usually hell for them. They ran away like dogs being chased away from a plate of food when they saw Sisilana taking a frying pan. She s

