Joy is asleep. The Dreamers who appear on Bonny’s Revenge - Justin, Madelyn, Amahle, Charlie - are all awake. The Dreamers who visit - Colin and Yumio - have woken up as well. Master Mind as usual guards Joy on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge, and Suzy and I sit on the porch, talking. 

Suzy sighs and says, “I’m going to take a little nap.” 

That’s unusual. We hardly ever sleep here in the dream. “A nap?” I ask. 

“Just a little one. I’m tired.” 

“Are you all right?” 

“I’m okay. Just tired.” 

Suzy gets up and I look into the horizon. 

Suddenly I hear her shout, “Walt! Walt!” 

My adrenaline’s pumping, as I get up and run towards our bedroom. 

As I run through the living room, Master Mind passes me. 

“What is it?” I come in, panting, looking around for zombies and villains. 

Master Mind is beside me, a laser gun extending from the exoskeleton of his left arm. 

Suzy looks fine. “There!” she points.

I look. The mirror. Our half length body mirror is broken. Most of its pieces lie shattered on the ground. Some broken glass still hangs on the mirror. 

“What the hell?” I say.

“Someone broke the mirror,” Suzy says. 

“Alternatlvely, some thing broke the mirror,” Master Mind says. 

“Yeah, that’s what I meant. Do we remember anything? Anyone who came here?” 

We all think for a second. 

“Nothing,” I say. 

“My level of concern is rising,” Master Mind adds. “I do not recall an incident of a dream coming here, or of one of the Dreamers, nor did I hear the mirror break. I would hear the mirror break even from the deck of the ship.” 

Oh, he’s proven that quite a few times. “Someone broke the mirror so silently that you didn’t hear it?” 

“It takes forethought and planning and ability. You understand now my rising levels of concern.” 

Suzy and I look at each other. It is safe to say our levels of concern are rising, too.

(To be continued…)