All tagged going to sleep
Suddenly, Joy emerges from the door, looking like she’s mostly asleep.
I stand up immediately, as Suzy asks, “Dearie, is everything okay?”
Joy doesn’t stop. She walks forward, and begins to climb the ramp.
“Joy, is everything okay?” I ask as we both scramble behind her up the ramp.
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“You look tired,” I tell her.
She nods. “I’m not ready to go to sleep yet.”
“Dearie,” Suzy tells her. “You know, we have a room in our house. It was your father’s room when he was a kid like you. It has a bed. You know, you don’t have to sleep on the ship. Do you want to sleep in his old bed?”
Joy jumps up in excitement. “Can you show it to me?”
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Dragon Little was two years old when I first heard her talk about a monster under the bed.
I was new to her father’s dream, having only arrived and rescued a few weeks ago, so if it had happened before, I would not know.
Dragon Father had disappeared when the bad guys were already defeated, as he did most of the time when she was that age. But he had also disappeared too early to tuck his daughter in.
Mary, still alive at the time, waited for the adventurers aboard Bonny’s Revenge. As usual, she asked Dragon Little about her adventure, got Dragon Little to take off her clothes and wear her pajamas, tell her a story, and tucked her in.
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Dragon Little was two years old when she discovered that any time she touched the wheel of Bonny’s Revenge, the pirate ship they lived on would start moving.
This was before Mary’s death. When Dragon Father was not around, but awake in his ‘real’ world, Mary would watch over Dragon Little and help her.
But Mary was not always capable of handling Dragon Little’s speed and determination.
Dragon Little and Mary were playing hide and seek on the deck, when Dragon Little hid behind the wheel.
As she peeked to see if Mary saw her, she touched the wheel, and the ship lurched, turning to one side.
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“Joy, come on, we’ve got bad guys to catch, damsels to save!”
“Shhh, shhh,” she put her tiny hand to his forehead. “You’re very tired.”
He sighed. “Yes, I’m very tired.”
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“Dad…”
“What, sweetheart?”
“Don’t go. Stay here when I sleep.”
“Go? Where am I gonna go? This is my home.”
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Dragon Little’s eyes closed slowly. Then, after a minute of two, she whispered. “What’s ‘dreams’, dad?”