the purpose of rain is to clear the dry humid air , water the sprouting farm crops and replenish the drinking fresh ponds as amita stills her five feet and nine inched tall body with her plastered brown hair clinging to her collar bone and back muscles with a partial dry and wet worn yellow cozy wool blanket trailing down to the wet planks then lounging at the top of the first puddle of water decorating the rock steps , during the rain storm as she suspiciously observes with her narrowed eyelashes the interior dark room with these darker panels made from the surrounding maple trees along ebros woodlands inside the tiny shack on edge of the birmingham cliffs .