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As we walk through the tunnel back towards Justin and Master Mind who are waiting on the surface of Madelyn’s Shroom, Charlie can’t stop looking at Madelyn’s super-wheelchair and laughing.
“What’s so funny?” Joy asks.
Charlie shakes his head and laughs.
Madelyn looks at him, and continues.
“Charlie, what’s so funny?” Joy insists.
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“I can lift you and walk you back through the tunnel, invalid,” Master Mind volunteers.
“Master Mind!” Justin and I both shout at him.
Madelyn raises her hand at Master Mind. “I can walk by myself, robot. Zhoy, you are coming with me?”
“Me, too!” Charlie says.
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“What is this, uh, this, uh, place?” Madelyn looks around in shock. She clearly finds it harder to speak English under the circumstances.
“Hold on to your butt,” Joy tells her. “You’re going to love this!”
“My butt?”
Justin waves at Madelyn dismissively. “It’s an expression. Ignore it. This,” he motions with his hand at the Shrooms, “is the place where everybody goes when they dream.”
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I follow his gaze and realize I’m looking down two meters at Madelyn’s Shroom. We’ve been to her dream four times now. But now… Madelyn sits on the shroom, right at the tunnel entrance, her hands holding the ground underneath her tightly.
I have never seen another Dreamer outside their dream!
“Whoa,” Joy says.
“Oh, my god!” Justin says.
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Master Mind is a killer. He’s far faster and far stronger than any human. He is able to reach any ball in time and to send balls faster than Madelyn could hope to answer.
He serves again. She misses again.
She looks at Justin. Then rolls to position. “Please wait a minute,” she calls to Master Mind.
“I can destroy you now or I can destroy you later,” he says. “It is the same to me.”
She sinks into deep thought. Then, suddenly, small jets appear on all sides of the wheelchair.
Justin laughs. Joy nods. I smile with expectation. There’s going to be a fair fight!
The wheelchair rises into the air.
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“Can’t beat Master Mind,” Justin agrees. “I wonder why he wanted to play.”
“Are you ready to play, Madelyn?” As I hear him say her name, I am sure I hear him separating the first syllable of her name. As if he called her Mad Delyn. Does he think her first name is ‘Mad’?
“I am ready, robot,” she answers with confidence in her French accent.
“I will annihilate you. I will destroy the ground you roll on. I will make you wish you were never born,” Master Mind says.
Justin buries his face in his palm. “Oh, no,” he whispers.
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“Dad’s going to win,” Joy says with the confidence of a girl who believes her father is all-powerful. In this case, I agree with her.
Madelyn rolls to position. “I am ready. Let’s begin.” She takes her racket.
“I’ll take it easy on you,” he says.
Madelyn laughs. “As you wish.”
Justin serves. Madelyn hits the ball back with such force that it hits the ground and moves past Justin faster than he reacts.
“Love fifteen,” she says. “You play your best game with me or you don’t play.”
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And here we are again, entering Madelyn’s dream.
As the glass elevator descends, we see that we are above a tennis court.
“What’s tennis?” Joy asks.
I look at Justin, almost horrified. “Justin, have you never shown Joy what tennis is?” Justin looks away from me and shakes his head. “But it’s such a big part of your life! Even now!”
He shakes his head again.
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I go to sit next to Charlie, who for the last ten minutes has been watching from one of the pool chairs.
“Charlie, this must be boring for you. I would think you just want to play with Joy.”
“Are you kidding?” he looks at me all excited and I see his eyes are dancing. He is happy. “Joy lives in a dream! Anything can happen! And she’s awesome! Look how strong she is! She’s Superman!”
“Hmm. Yeah, well,” I mutter. “She’s hardly Superman.”
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Joy comes out of the changing room.
“I’m ready!”
Madelyn has been waiting for her at the edge of the pool, not standing on the small stumps of her legs, but rather sitting.
“Come here, Zhoy,” she says. “You will be here. I will be here.”
Joy nods and stands in her own lane, next to Madelyn’s lane.
“Ready?”
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“Do you speak French, Joy?” she pronounces the name ‘Zhoy’.
“I don’t know,” Joy answers happily. “What’s French?”
Charlie peeks from behind Joy. “She doesn’t speak French, miss,” he says.
Madelyn takes a deep breath. “Then it is harder.”
Both Joy and Charlie are looking down at her. Even though Madelyn is clearly a tall woman, standing without legs she is shorter than them.
“Zhoy,” Madelyn speaks slowly, choosing her words. She knows English, but it is hard for her. “Do you know what it is like to… to win?”
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There are only a handful of people walking or sitting in the pool in Madelyn’s dream. They all have regular shadows, which means they’re all dreams.
I look around and there are no people with movies in their shadows, like the shadows of Justin and Charlie.
“There!” Justin points out. “Swimming in the pool! The tall woman!”
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I stand at the edge of the tunnel, which is one of the suns in a completely new dream, and I look down.
“I don’t know what that building is,” Justin confers with Master Mind and Joy, with Charlie watching. “But I don’t see any monsters or dangers.”
Justin has to make sure this dream is safe for Joy to go into. After all, any dream can kill her or harm her. But in this case, I think he doesn’t have to.
I laugh. “Justin, I can’t believe how little French you know.” Seriously, I’ve told him this all his life. We live in Canada!
He looks at me, eyes crinkled. “Just say what you know, Dad.”
“It says ‘Piscine du Grand Parc’ right there on the sign. It’s a pool, Justin.” I smile at them, “I’m afraid we’re not in North America anymore.”
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