Reason for the Lake

"So I have a sister?" was Aires's response when Lucia and Diego told her of Luna's upcoming visit.

"You have a sister," Lucia answered.

With this revelation, nineteen-year-old Aires Caredana was to welcome her long-lost sibling to her family home. Her sister was gravely ill, and no one knew how to treat her.

Over two hundred years had now passed after the construction of the villa in which the Caredana family lived. The villa and, adjacent to this, a lake, were well renowned. Nobody knew wheth...