RAIN [part 1]

As long as Tom could remember, rain evoked uncertainty, fear and terror in him. The slightest change in the weather - the change in wind direction , air pressure or temperature shift from hot to cold or vice versa - had him in a state of panic.
Tom's whole life was ruled by the weather, but especially rain. Will it rain today .... it looks like rain .... when will this rain stop. He doesn't know where it all started, he just know that he has a mortal fear of rain. He has an powerful instinct to stay out of the rain because it will kill him. How it will kill him, he doesn't know ,just that it will be a horrible and slow death. He's psychiatrist lately connected his fear of rain with his re-occurring dreams of an incident on his visit to Africa 5 years ago. Tom and 4 friends were visiting a remote village. As part of their tour they were allowed to attend a sacred ritual - the rain dance by the Rain Queen. Nobody told them that it is a 6 hour long ceremony and once you are allowed in the circle, yo