Mariam who was fairly young when their mother passed away relied a lot on Maximus. But the kind, soft, and caring brother she once knew had suddenly disappeared overnight and she had to cope with that new version of him.
She didn't know why he was bartered or why he spent five months in the hospital, but she decided to blame his coldness on the fact that they lost their mother.
She could still vividly remember the look on his face when he heard that his mother had died. It was blank and hollow.
Instead of crying, as everyone might've expected, he went ahead to throw a tantrum. With his healed hand, he started breaking everything, screaming at the top of his lungs and refusing to believe it.
He refused to believe anything.
His breakdown made her scared of approaching him. She feared that he would hurt her. They all did but one day, she approached him with her favorite doll and said,
