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S02E164 The Temporary Base, Part 1: The Fairy Flies

Guy Hasson
Age: 7.5, Told by Grampa Walt

This is our first day staying in what Joy has named our ‘temporary base’: The tunnels into and out of Justin’s dream, and the Shroom outside.

We are still afraid that Justin will appear dreaming about those horrible demons. Which is also why we’re not going to Charlie’s dream. A dream’s a dream, regardless of the dreamer.

So here we are, those who stay behind when the Dreamers are awake: Master Mind, Suzy and I, and Joy.

Suzy is sitting on one of the two lawn chairs that Justin summoned, leaning outside the tunnel, and that Joy touched and made real. Suzy has put it on top of Justin’s Shroom, and is sitting on it like she’s on the beach. Except that she’s looking at countess Shrooms in every direction, stretching down past our ability to see, stretching up so high in the sky that we can’t discern their origin.

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S02E163 The Children, Part 10: The End of the Battle

Guy Hasson
Age: 7.5, Told by Grampa Walt

The sky where the aerial battle had been between the condors and the demons is now different. One demon holds Justin’s limp body in the air, while another holds Charlie by the neck. There are no other creatures left.

Charlie screams in horror and Suzy’s nails dig into my back.

“Master Mind!” Joy says.

“It will not help!” Master Mind says. “The Pirate is in control of his dream.”

“Do it!”

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S02E162 The Children, Part 9: Condors Vs. Demons!

Guy Hasson
Age: 7.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Charlie’s fleet of 11 condors flies towards the army of what must be a thousand dark demons.

Justin is dangling limply from the talons of one of the demons, but it’s his nightmare that’s bringing about the demons.

Charlie raises his hand and the sky fills with clouds.

“I’ve never seen him like this!” I whisper.

“He wants to be like me,” Joy says matter-of-factly.

I look at her for a second. “How do you know?”

She shrugs. “He tells me all the time.”

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S02E161 The Children, Part 8: Charlie to the Rescue!

Guy Hasson
Age: 7.5, Told by Grampa Walt

A condor as big as Bonny’s Revenge descends from above to hover outside the ship’s deck, the one farther from us. Suzy, Joy, Master Mind and I watch from the tunnel as Charlie jumps from the railing to the back of the condor with unusual bravery for such a height.

Joy nods to herself. “He used that condor when we met. She’s his friend.”

The dark demons are a kilometer or so ahead of him, throwing Justin from one to the other.

As Charlie flies on the condor towards the demons, more giant condors appear at his side. There are eleven of them now, creating a V formation in the air, with Charlie at the point of the V.

“Oh, my…” Suzy says. “He’s just a little kid. He’s going to have an aerial battle with demons?”

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S02E160 The Children, Part 7: Helpless Justin

Guy Hasson
Age: 7.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Justin reappears a few moments later, and with him come the dark demons.

We are all watching from the safety of the tunnel, but I hold my breath as soon as I see them. Suzy, near me, gasps. Joy’s hand goes to the holster of the laser pistol at her side, but she doesn’t draw it.

Justin tries to fight the demon with a sword from the weapons cabinet, but he is suddenly inept with a sword.

“Dad! Into the tunnel!” Joy yells at him.

She stands right on the edge of the tunnel, confident that nothing of the dream can make it across.

Justin sees her, and immediately there is a jetpack on his back. He flies forward, as Joy ducks, but one of the huge demons captures him in its huge talons.

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S02E159 The Children, Part 6: The Safe Zone

Guy Hasson
Age: 7.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Once Charlie had taken Justin out of his dream and into the tunnel, there was no longer any danger.

Joy dusted herself off, and went off to helm Bonny’s Revenge up to the sun that Charlie had gone through.

Suzy and I get up slowly from the deck. I can’t help but notice that Joy doesn’t try and help us and doesn’t check up on us. Maybe she assumes we’re okay?

“Suzy?” I ask, looking at her all disheveled and half panicked.

“I’m fine. I’m fine,” she straightens her clothes. “How are you?”

I feel a strange need to touch my chest and actually feel that I wasn’t hurt. “I think I’m okay. That was… That was really scary.”

“Is this how your adventures are?”

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S02E158 The Children, Part 5: Charlie Saves the Day

Guy Hasson
Age: 7.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Charlie looks around helplessly as one of the dark creatures attempts to grab Joy.

Joy leaps out of the way, but it was close.

Joy’s weapon needs to recharge. Justin, whose dreams these are, is an obsessed dreamer and can’t snap out of it. And Master Mind’s weapons aren’t working on them.

Charlie raises his hand as if about to conjure something as a dreamer. But he doesn’t. His mind is clearly a blank.

Master Mind leaps at one of the creatures now flying above the ship, who is trying to grab Joy. He grabs the bottom of its taloned leg and is now rising into the air with the creature.

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S02E157 The Children, Part 4: The Monsters

Guy Hasson
Age: 7.5, Told by Grampa Walt

“My missiles do not wound the monsters,” Master Mind sounds panicky.

“They’ve come for you, Joy!” Justin rolls to the weapons cabinet and goes his body to the fetal position. I have never seen him cower in the Dream.

Joy, on the floor next to the weapons cabinet, launches what looks like a bazooka, but a space bazooka. “Dad! It’s not them!” She aims it at the creatures descending on the ship, and fires at the closest one.

With a zark! sound Joy’s weapon launches a thick, red ray of energy at the closest creature, and it punches a hole in its body. The dark, bat-like creature that’s the size of the ship falls back and into the ocean, dead. “They’re your dream! Make them go away!”

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S02E156 The Children, Part 3: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Guy Hasson
Age: 7.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Master Mind, the killer robot who had been sewn back together, had been standing silently all this time near at the helm of Bonny’s Revenge. He observed silently when Justin appeared, when the kids asked to go on a quest to find Dreamer children, and when Justin had a bad reaction to it.

Now he stands next to Justin, and I hadn’t even noticed that he moved.

“Pirate,” he says. “You have clearly observed a danger in the Dream. I have seen nothing. What stimuli prompted your fear?”

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