In banned books he had read something about the joy, but he realized he had never really tried it until that moment.

There were also many women, but they were neither slaves nor submissive, they were beautiful and sunny too, full of joy even without smiling and when they smiled it was like seeing a birth flower.. it was like being touched by a cool and fragrant breeze. He had never seen a smile like this before, he fell in love with those women immediately.
On Elsaf, smile was a standard procedure, a requirement in public places, with heavy penalties and punishments for those who do not meticulously observe default behavior, but here those women seemed to smile because they wanted to do, wishes.. he began to feel this inside .. desire, that's what it was.. as the joy he felt for the first time.

Touching was the encounter with the father of his new friend. The man, only apparently old, had the same sparkling eyes as his son, and after a strong handshake he began to talk about things that nobody was talking anymore in the city: the community, the respect for nature, the importance of valors and shared rules, the man, the woman, the music, the beauty. Zed had a long talk with that old wise man.

Now, all was clear. The teachers had been lying since the beginning.. they had been manipulating him since he was a boy.

The world outside was beautiful. Wise and strong men, soft and natural women, beautiful and different human beings, they didn't seem like animals although they lived in balance with creatures and nature, and of course they were much more human than people in the place he had grown up in.

From the joy of heaven where he was, he suddenly fell heavily on earth, and he was pierced by a pain inside the heart: his people were dying.

His people were not even living.. his.. "his" people he was saying.. what was this? .. membership.. sense of belonging.. he had never felt something like this, in Elsaf they taught him that a person was only a human resource, but here everything was changed.. now he had observed the group, the tribe, one only united thing, in harmony, he realized that it was necessary to treat the individual and the community together the same way.. it wasn't a choice between.. and his community was in need of help.