Baptisms, absolution of those who had committed sins according to the holy book. Purification of the body with water.
Adelmo kept narrating the event.
"When I saw her reflection into the water... She had nothing of a little girl. Under her knee-long dress, a black body, over her pink cheeks, two red eyes that stared at me. I described the anomaly to her parents after freaking out a little..."
Oswald's breathe made the man shudder. The fetid stench that flew around Adelmo's head and the two yellow beams staring down at him could make anyone uneasy.
"But once they got to see her from the place I was... Daniela screamed. 'That's the devil!' And her very face distorted with anger and sadness. That reflection... A smile that almost cut her pretty face in two, what was that thing? I wondered."