Yellow lights permeate the night at irregular intervals, and although Ryan de Silva’s childhood home was just a 20 minute drive from downtown Indianapolis it quietly whispered of the midwestern stereotypes that stifled his breath.
The stoplights he passes on the way to BroadRipple are occasionally held by wires, and everywhere around him dead silence permeates into his thoughts. It seems not a soul is awake tonight, even in the particularly small northern nightlife district. A far cry, he thought, from the round-the-clock anarchy found in his new home of Las Vegas, Nevada. Now a popular promoter for MARQUEE, Ryan can’t help but laugh at the disparity between his two lives.
Still, he couldn’t resist this intrinsic tendency to find the outskirts somewhat comforting. It was after all intertwined with memories of his late mother, Sunday Mass, and the excitement of winter’s snow on a Christmas day. To say the least, the humble nothingness was intertwined with a simpler past free from Janus and Ashley Vegas.
Those two.
The ones that fucked up everything he ever had.