All tagged Madelyn's wheelchair

S03E300 The Beach, Part 3, Swimming Costume

Guy Hasson
Age: 9, Told by Grampa Walt

Can you create Glen Beach?” Madelyn asks Amahle. 

Amahle exhales, and suddenly beyond Suzy’s and mine small island, Justin’s ocean is covered with a beach bustling with people. Suzy gasps. The sand is a different color, the beach umbrellas are colorful, too, and there are so many people here, families, friends, people who came on their own. 

How could Amahle create such detail and such colors when she’s been blind from birth?!

“It is… magnifique,” Madelyn says. “I adore this place! And there is no need for suntan lotion!” 

Amahle laughs. In a second, her clothes are replaced by a one-piece bathing suit with a kind of - I don’t know the name for it - the kind that has a kind of a skirt around it at the bottom. 

“What is this?” Madelyn asks. 

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S02E298 The Beach, Part 1, So Close

Guy Hasson
Age: 9, Told by Grampa Walt

As usual, Amahle and Elvis appear on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge while Joy is still asleep. 

“Amahle,” I call her from the porch, where Suzy and I are sitting. “Let me help you down.” 

“I am perfectly fine, Walter.” She uses Elvis and her blind stick to lead her down the ramp which she already knows so well. 

As she’s halfway through, Madelyn appears behind her on her wheelchair.

Amahle stops and listens. After a second, she says, “Hello, Madelyn. Comment ça va?” 

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Guy Hasson
Age: 7, Told by Grampa Walt

Master Mind has brought Amahle from her dream back to Justin’s dream, where we’re all waiting for her.

Back on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge, Elvis, her seeing eye dog reappears. Along with the cane in her right hand, which she moves to her left.

We wait for her to explain what the danger was that she sensed around us before she disappeared and woke up.

“I do not know what it was,” Amahle says. “I have never felt anything like it. It felt like someone was hitting me in the head.”

“What?” Joy is concerned. After all, nothing had been close to any of our heads.

“It was a pounding,” Amahle continues. “From inside my head. Like something was pushing me to the ground.”

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S02E228 Suns of the Eternoon, Part 4, Joy’s Touch

Guy Hasson
Age: 7, Told by Grampa Walt

There is a deep sense of strangeness when Amahle disappears. Johannesburg disappears. The sunset disappears. And the full light of the two suns return. The half-darkness, was caused by Amahle. Now that I think about it, its creation was also aided by Joy holding Amahle’s hand.

And then there’s silence. Strange, awkward silence.

“What the hell happened?” Colin asks.

Joy is looking at her own hands.

“Joy,” Justin moves closer to her. “Do you know what happened? Do you know what she was talking about?”

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S02E227 Suns of the Eternoon, Part 3, Amahle’s Sunset

Guy Hasson
Age: 7, Told by Grampa Walt

Amahle puts her right hand to her temple. “I will try.”

The last sunset disappears and all around us, on top of the permanent ocean, the streets of Johannesburg appear.

“Can you see it, Joy?”

We all look around. “We see Johannesburg, Amahle,” Madelyn says. “But there is no sun.”

Joy reaches out to hold Amahle’s left hand, but Amahle raises it to her temple as well. “Sun,” she says. “Sun.”

And a sun appears right above the horizon. An orange sun about to set. Unlike all other sunrises, this time the sun’s light does not influence the sky. The blue sky doesn’t change color. Just there, at the bottom, there is powerful, setting orange sun.

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S02E226 Suns of the Eternoon, Part 2

Guy Hasson
Told by Grampa Walt, Age: 7

“Joy, do you want to see a sunset from Japan?” Yumio says.

“Yuh-huh.”

Everything around us changes. In front of us is a river. Far ahead is a mountain, and the sun is setting behind it, its orange colors spreading across not only the sky but the mountain and the river.

Joy stares at it with eyes agape. Suzy gasps. Madelyn takes in a deep breath.

“Fantastic!” Colin said. “Where are we?”

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S02E225 Suns of the Eternoon, Part 1

Guy Hasson
Age: 7, Told by Grampa Walt

“Why are we here, Madelyn?” Justin says.

She had asked to take us to the middle of the ocean.

“I think it is time to show little Zhoy the things she cannot see in this world.”

“Like what?” Joy says.

“Zhoy, in this world you can see anything. But one thing you have never seen, I believe, is a sunset.”

“What’s a sunset?”

“In the…uhm…waking world,” Madelyn says. “The sun rises on one side, goes up, and goes down on the other side.”

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02E221 Girls’ Night Out, Part 2, As Strong as a Girl

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Amahle feels around with her hand once Joy comes back from her cabin, having put her toothbrush and toothpaste in place. “Joy,” Amahle touches her cheek, then her shoulder. “I want to do something nice. I want us to have fun! Can you get excited for that?”

“I want to go,” Joy says. “It sounds like a thing you do in the waking world.”

“It is,” Madelyn says.

“On special occasions,” Amahle adds. “This is a special occasion.”

“But why only girls? What kind of adventure is it? Why can’t Charlie come? I mean, he’s a dreamer. So it doesn’t matter that he’s not as strong as a girl.”

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S02E90 Outside the Dream, Part 5: Justin’s Breakdown

Guy Hasson

Things have become very strange.

“This is a tunnel, just like in your Shroom,” Justin explains to Madelyn. “But it leads to someone else’s dream.”

She nods.

“Me first,” she says.

She does not wait for a response and her wheelchair rolls into the tunnel first.

Joy comes in right after her. “I’m first! I’m first! You’re last, slowpokes!” Charlie runs after them both and Master Mind is quick to follow as well.

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S02E89 Outside the Dream, Part 4: Charlie’s Laughter

Guy Hasson
Age: 6.5, Told by Grampa Walt

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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