Suzy and I finally convince Master Mind that privacy for humans is important.

He gets on the ship as we look from the window.

He is searching for something. And, finally, when he finds it, he straightens and turns to look at us. He is now waving a flare gun.

I smile at him through the window and wave. “Okay,” I say softly. “Then pilot the ship, and when you can’t hear us, give us a flare.”

Master Mind nods his huge, robotic head. Apparently, he can indeed hear us from the ship through our home’s walls closed door.

Suzy looks at me and shakes her head.

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Justin has vanished. He has woken up. He won’t be coming back for fourteen or sixteen hours.

Charlie has vanished. He has also woken up. He also won’t be coming back for a long time.

Joy is in bed, fast asleep. We had put her to sleep in Justin’s old room, but she’d woken up in the middle of the night and moved back to her room on the ship.

She is fast asleep.

It’s been a long, long first day. Suzy and I are in our son’s dream, apparently, and this is our new home. We are grandparents to a daughter who only lives in the Dream. We’ve had a funeral. We’ve had to absorb changes.

Everything is different.

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