**
"What? You have someone you love?"
Maya shrieked in a high-pitched voice.
Abis heard this, too, and his heart felt as if it had been viciously stabbed by a needle, the corners of his lips twitching imperceptibly...
"Yes, I have someone I love, outside."
Mai Xiaomai nodded, "If Lord Abis likes you, I wouldn't stand in your way. But since Lord Abis doesn't like you, you might as well give up on him and pursue someone else."
Maya looked toward Abis and silently nodded.
She also knew that Abis felt nothing for her.
As a Sky Burial Master and Physician, in the tribe, Abis was seen as a god-like figure and also a phantom dealing with the dead, so her parents opposed her going near him.
But she had liked Abis since she was young and always wished to marry him, disregarding her parents' opposition and occasionally finding her way to what was essentially a forbidden area in the tribe to look for him.
Yet each time Abis saw her, he neither spoke to her nor spared her a glance.
