The smell of smoke breaks the chatter and the color of orange on the stage, replaces the orange setting sun in the now-blackened sky. Fire. 

Different species of birds scurry up in the sky. Their shriekings of fear were heard from below. Children cry and adults use the leftover lake water in the jug to put out the fire. The blaze gets bigger as the able-bodied men, both in anger and confusion of reality run to houses to draw water from their waterstock. 

The ...