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S02E136 Special Delivery

Guy Hasson
Age: 6.5, Told by Grampa Walt

With Justin and Charlie both awake and gone from the dream, it’s time for Master Mind and Joy to do their special delivery to Charlie’s dream. As always, I join them. Just in case something happens. Just in case something should be reported back to Justin.

Joy has gathered on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge ten permanent jetpacks that Charlie has left in Justin’s dream, having used them to come over. Once he’s here, he wakes up from here and the jetpack gets left behind.

So, once a week, Joy and Master Mind bring them back.

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S02E94 Going to See Madelyn

Guy Hasson
Age: 8, Told by Grampa Walt

We are off again!

Over the last two weeks, we’ve had adventure after adventure with Madelyn. Madelyn has been in South America, getting ready for one of her races, so her dream time is the same as Justin’s and Charlie’s.

So day after day (I mean our days, not their days), when Justin appears, we get ready and head off to meet Madelyn on top of her Shroom. Then we decide where we should have our adventure: in Justin’s dream or in Madelyn’s.

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S02E91 Outside the Dream, Part 6: The Baby

Guy Hasson
Age: 6.5, Told by Grampa Walt

The six of us crowd together at the edge of the tunnel as we look in on this new dream. Madelyn sits in her super wheelchair in the middle, and we all try to squeeze in around her. All except Master Mind, who takes one peek then moves back.

“Our first rule, Madelyn, is safety.” Justin tells her. “We’re Dreamers. We can wake up if something happens to us. Joy can really get hurt. We have to protect her at any cost. Do you understand?

She nods, her face serious. “Protect Joy. Of course.”

“My dad, Grampa Walt, can also get hurt. But protect him second. First Joy.”

I notice he didn’t explain I was a dream made permanent. That’s wise for now.

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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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S02E87 Outside the Dream, Part 2: Madelyn in the Dream

Guy Hasson
Age: 6.5, Told by Grampa Walt

“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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S02E86 Outside the Dream, Part 1

Guy Hasson
Age: 6.5, Told by Grampa Walt

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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S02E44 The Falling Shrooms, Part 4: A Shroom Falls

Guy Hasson
Age: 6.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Joy hugs the stem of the Shroom for an hour before something happens. The stem leads to the Shroom, which holds the tunnels, which lead somehow, impossibly, into Justin’s dream which seems to be infinite in size and in which anything can happen. And yet the stem has only enough room for ten people at most, and that is if they stand uncomfortably close.

After about an hour, Charlie’s Shroom falls.

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S02E43 The Falling Shrooms, Part 3: Charlie’s Life

Guy Hasson
Age: 6.5, Told by Grampa Walt

We wait for hours, but the Shrooms don’t fall. Joy and Charlie insist on not letting go of the Shrooms’ stems in all that time. Joy is holding on to the stem of Justin’s dream, and Charlie holds on to the stem of his dream.

At some point I decide to sit down on the small surface of the Shroom. I still hold Master Mind’s hand. I am still afraid I might fall when the Shroom collapses.

They spend the time talking to each other by yelling from Shroom to Shroom.

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S02E42 The Falling Shrooms, Part 2: Riding the Shrooms

Guy Hasson
Age: 6.5, Told by Grampa Walt

I ask Master Mind to hold my hand. I am really afraid. I’m the only one who is.

Joy, Master Mind and I, are standing on top of Justin’s Shroom. The tunnels that lead back inside are on two sides of the stem and Joy is hugging the stem between the tunnels.

Joy has to be sitting down while hugging the Shroom since the Fairy Flies have taken Justin’s stem to be their home. Over the last few months they have gathered and come to rest on the stem at the height of Joy’s head. Possibly this is their nest, but who knows. They don’t talk.

Two meters below us and ahead is Charlie, standing on his own Shroom, hugging his own Shroom’s stem.

“Ready, Joy?”

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S02E41 The Falling Shrooms, Part 1: Accident

Guy Hasson
Age: 6.5, Told by Grampa Walt

When the door opens, we are only a few centimeters from the tunnel. In the middle of the sun, it’s not that bright, as the edge of the tunnel shines outwardly, filling Charlie’s dream with light.

“We’re going to your dad’s dream, right?” I ask.

Joy nods. She’s the boss. I’ve learned that we can’t make her do anything.

The tunnel, slimy, with strange pock marks, always makes me feel woozy. The fact that it seems to be shrinking slightly and expanding slightly doesn’t help. The fact that I have to lower my head to walk in it also doesn’t help. I really hate these tunnels.

We come out to stand on Charlie’s Shroom. I look around, feeling disoriented. The Shrooms are not in the same position as they were when we came in.

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S02E31 The Runaway Girl, Part 3: Joy’s Crazy Idea

Guy Hasson
Age: 7, Told by Grampa Walt

I was frantic with worry. Justin had just fallen into the depths of the abyss of the Dream. He had fallen so much in-between millions of Shrooms, that I couldn’t see him anymore.

“Justin! Justin!” I shout after him.

“Grampa! Grampa!” I feel Joy’s hand take mine.

I look at her. “Joy, he could be dead or--”

“Grampa, Grampa, he’s fine. He’s fine.”

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S02E30 The Runaway Girl, Part 2: The Day Justin Failed

Guy Hasson
Age: 7, Told by Grampa Walt

“Justin!” I shout the second Justin appears on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge.

It’s only been a few minutes since I’d given up trying to cross the plank from the edge of the sun to Bonny’s Revenge.

He looks up immediately.

“The kids have gone off to another dream!” I shout. “They left Master Mind on the island.”

“Jesus Christ,” he says. A jetpack appears on his back.

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