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S02E273 Tooth Island, Part 3, The Tooth Tree and the Slowpokes

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

We don’t wait more than a few seconds when suddenly something green begins to grow where the kids buried the Last Tooth Dust.

Then the green turns to leaves, then the leaves grow on a stem that grows up and up, widening and turning into a tree trunk. The trunk grows high, and the higher it goes, the thicker it grows. Branches and leaves extend from it every which way, hiding the trunk from view.

High above, the trunk appears to be almost a kilometer high, when the sky cracks open revealing another sky. It is as if a wormhole has appeared in the middle of the sky.

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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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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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S02E35 Madelyn’s Dream, Part 4: The Fairy Flies

Guy Hasson
Age: 6, Told by Grampa Walt

“What is it?” Justin says.

“It’s like a tiny fairy with really big teeth,” Charlie says. “Is it going to eat me?”

“It’s just a fly,” Joy waves at it dismissively. “General Hawk and I saw a cloud of them. They don’t do anything.”

Justin reaches out with an open palm, inviting the creature to land on his hand. But the creature flies up, circles around Charlie’s head, then flies towards the stem behind us. The Shroom’s stem is thick, thrice as thick as Justin’s body. And I can see a handful of these glowing creatures are already resting on the stem.

“They’re are quite cute,” Master Mind says with his robotic voice. “Petting them would bring me pleasure. As would crushing them between my fingers.”

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#322: Joy’s Fourth Birthday, Part 4: Managing Fear

Guy Hasson
Age: 4, Told by The Red Dragon

High above the mountains of Mars, Dragon Little stood on the railing of Bonny’s Revenge holding her hang glider. Keeping her balance perfectly, she looked down.

Dragon Father looked at her from the wooden deck, holding his own hand glider. He had an amused smile on his face.

“Are you sure you’re okay doing this, Dad?” he asked his daughter.

She tried to hold her hang glider correctly, but it was awkward.

“I’ve done this maaaaany times, Joy,” she said. “Trust me.”

She held on to it correctly. “Are you coming, slowpoke?” she said.

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#291: The Tooth Tree and the Slow Pokes

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

The Tooth Tree sprouted within a minute.

Dragon Little and Dragon Father looked at it, standing on the barren sand of Tooth Island.

The sprout thickened into a massive vine, multiplied into multiple vines, and all the vines skyrocketed upwards, meshing into each other, jutting out, then getting entangled again, as if in a competition to get higher faster.

A doorway opened in the sky, a bright light and seemingly a tear within the fabric of space.

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