Elysium, the fabled blessed land of the dead.
The little town where he lived was called Elysium Hollow.
Rain fell and fell over the hollow, as if it would never stop.
Here, names seemed to mean the opposite of what they should.
Everything was always gray, gray.
There were few sunny days, just two or three months out of the year, and bright sunshine was rarer still.
The day Ze Xi went to prison, sunlight poured down. Months of continuous rain stopped that day. Just as the prison gates were about to close, the clouds parted and dazzling, brilliant sunshine fell upon his shoulders and back.
He was sentenced to five years. He didn't know why he had ended up in prison, and whenever his cellmates asked, he always said he didn't know.
No one visited him during that time. The only news he received from the outside was that his grandmother had died.
Five years later, he was released.
On his way home, someone asked him for directions. The moment he saw that person, everything suddenly made sense.
A sane man driven mad vs. a madman.
Ze Xi Brown vs. Karen Damian
Theme: Freedom is priceless.
