Tisha put the book in her hand on the low table in front of him. When he saw his sister's figure coming in, his face was not happy at all. The girl revisited what her brother said this morning. "Now that Mark and I are reconciled, I am very happy." She didn't believe her brother's words, so she hurried to Tayakey to see if her sister was as happy as she said. But what I see is different from what the sky and the ground say. Look. . . Tayakey's face looked pale, like a man who had stayed up all night, like a sick man. "Are you ill? … why do you look so pale?" "I have nothing to do, but do you want to come with me in an urgent matter? Come so early?" His tone tried to make people happy, but the result was pitifully bitter. "I said my brother and Mark made up, so I came to see. But no