Summer had just begun, and the sky had a color

that resembled cat vomit. Of course, Tali thought, to achieve these pinkish hues, you would need to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while. Anyway, the clouds

as they moved looked a bit like fish, because as the wind blurred them

it was as if they had scales. As the daylight faded, large dark blue pieces of the night appeared through the gaps between them, like an upside-down ocean, endless and icy.

Any other summer, such a sunset would be beautiful

. But since Perry became handsome, nothing seemed beautiful to her. It's terrible to lose your best friend, even if only for three months and two days.

Tali Youngbland waited for it to get dark. From her open window, she could see the Neighborhood of the New

Beautiful. The amusement towers had already been lit up, and the lit torches formed bright paths in the amusement gardens. In the pink sky, which was gradually darkening,

some hot air balloons tied with ropes swayed,

whose passengers threw safety fireworks at other balloons and passing parachutes with parasailing.

Laughter and music slid over the water like stones

that were thrown with the right angle and scraped Tali's nerves with their hard edges.