Vireo had woken up. His brain disease had been successfully cured. It seemed like he had an extremely long dream with many people in it. From his childhood to adulthood, from the county to his college days, from his college back to the county, and then from the county to the provincial capital. From his adoptive parents to his sisters and his wife. Also, those voices that seemed far at one moment but near in the next. Were they a hallucination? Was it a dream? It should have been a dream. It was