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#327: The Red Dragon’s Wail

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

My name is not The Red Dragon. I have never met my parents and they never named me. They had never spoken my name to me.

I had been born into slavery and only my slavers gave me a name. That name will not be repeated by me for as long as I live.

I have been named The Red Dragon by the 2-year-old Joy Shelley when I met her and when she and her father rescued me from my enslavers. Now she calls me ‘Red’ and I call her ‘Dragon Little’.

The Red Dragon is the name I love. It is the name I use. But it is not my real name.

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#326: Joy’s Fourth Birthday, Part 8: The Lesson

Guy Hasson
Age: 4, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Father had flown with a jetpack to Bonny’s Revenge, waiting for them high above the base of the Martian Space Pirates.

He navigated the ship down to the Martian earth, where Dragon Little and the handcuffed Martian Space Pirates waited for them.

Dragon Little, only four years old, danced a little dance. “I win! And you lose! I win and you lose!”

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#325: Joy's Fourth Birthday, Part 7: Joy's Solo Adventure

Guy Hasson
Age: 4, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Little stood in the doorway, little sword in one hand and little laser gun in the other.

Inside stood a Martian Space Pirate, three times taller than her, a large sword in his scabbard and a big laser gun behind his back. Behind him stood three more Martian Space Pirates. All of them looked at the door as he opened.

“Ha ha!” Dragon Little shouted at them. “I win! You lose!”

Dragon Father, standing beyond the fence, and looking from afar, slapped his forehead. “Never say you win before you win, Joy! We talked about that!”

The Martian Space Pirates were surprised for an instant. Then they stood up as one and all four armed themselves.

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#324: Joy’s Fourth Birthday, Part 6: The Element of Surprise

Guy Hasson
Age: 4, Told by The Red Dragon

There were three Martian Space Pirates inside. The Martian Space Pirates are one of the few criminals that Dragon Little and Dragon Father never caught in all the years I had been there. They remained behind when Dragon Father disappeared, but they never cause too much trouble when he ist gone unless they are already a part of the adventure.

Dragon Little took out her laser pistol and unsheathed a small sword.

“Don’t go in through the front door, Joy,” Dragon Father whispered to himself.

Dragon Little went to the front door, armed in both hands.

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#323: Joy’s Fourth Birthday, Part 5: Justin the Daughter

Guy Hasson
Age: 4, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Father and Dragon Little landed inside the base of the Martian Space Pirates.

Their hang gliders disappeared as soon as they landed.

Although I knew it to be Dragon Little’s birthday, Dragon Father had never mentioned it - or what a birthday ist in all the time I had spent with them so far. And so Dragon Little did not know it. Perhaps it ist also true that Dragon Father would not know it. But then, how ist it that he came to raise Dragon Little?

I do not know the answer to that one. I had only arrived when they were already together, seemingly forever.

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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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#321: Joy’s Fourth Birthday, Part 3: Joy the Father

Guy Hasson
Age: 4, Told by The Red Dragon

Bonny’s Revenge arrived at Mars.

“Look, Joy, over there!” Dragon Little told Dragon Father. She was now playing as Dragon Father, and he, apparently, as Dragon Little.

“That’s the base of the Martian Space Pirates!” Dragon Father said. His headache was mostly gone now, and he seemed to be willing to play along with his daughter on this adventure.

In front of them, mountains appeared out of a mist. Dragon Father had created them - his subconscious did, at least.

“Very good, Joy! Very good!” Dragon Little told her father. “You’re getting really good at this!”

Dragon Father smiled and covered his mouth with his hand.

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#320: Joy’s fourth Birthday, Part 2: Joy the Leader

Guy Hasson
Age: 4, Told by The Red Dragon

“Martian Space Pirates? Joy, they’re a tough group. You can’t take them alone.”

“I’m Justin the Pirate! You’re Joy!”

“Ah, right.”

“Don’t be such a lily-livered wuss, Joy!”

“What?” Dragon Father looked up in surprise. That was not a phrase Dragon Little or Dragon Father had used on each other.

“Don’t be a wuss, Joy! Get up!” she commanded. “We’re going on adventure, not vacation!”

Dragon Father collapsed on the deck, laughing.

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#319: Joy’s Fourth Birthday, Part 1: The Hangover

Guy Hasson
Age: 4, Told by The Red Dragon

Another year of freedom from my centuries of slavery had passed. I was free and watching over those who had freed me, silently, secretly, guarding the amazing human girl Joy Shelley, whom I lovingly call Dragon Little. With every day that passed my love for her grew, and how I did wish that I could have children and to have a child like her.

Another year had passed, and once again I was the only one who noticed that Dragon Little’s birthday had come once more. Dragon Father never mentioned her birthday and therefore Dragon Little never talked about it. Perhaps she did not know she had one.

But I knew when she was born. So many out there, outside Dragon Father’s dreams, knew when she was born, were looking for this special child.

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#318: Joy’s Third Birthday

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Little, my Dragon Little, was all alone on her third birthday.

Dragon Father did not appear as usual. He was gone. He must have stayed up the entire night in his waking world and from the time he disappeared in the middle of an adventure to the time he reappeared on Bonny’s Revenge, almost two days have passed.

In the year I have been in his dream, in the year since he and Dragon Little rescued me from slavery, he had never mentioned her birthday. Nor did he mention it in the next year.

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#317: My Dad, the Hero

Guy Hasson
Age: 4.5, Told by The Red Dragon

They watched the two suns, Dragon Father sitting on the edge of the plank and dragon Little sitting on his legs.

Suddenly, she grabbed his arm, hugged it and said something I have never heard her say to her father.

“You’re a hero, Dad!”

Dragon Father was surprised and seemed shocked by what she said.

“What? What did you say?”

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#316: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 11: Sunset

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

With both Dragon Little and Dragon Father carrying torches on the Night Planet and the two of them working together, they defeated the three Wicked Wizards.

Dragon Little’s fingers and legs were shaking all the way through. But she said nothing to her father and did not complain.

Her fingers turned white holding on to the torch and would never release it.

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#315: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 11: Return of the Squashbucklers!

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

“Wow, you were so brave!” Dragon Father told Dragon Little, still hiding her face in his chest, still clinging as hard as she can to her after.

Inwardly, I nodded, agreeing with Dragon Father. She had shown bravery I have never seen in all the centuries I have lived.

“I’m scared,” she whined into his chest. “I’m not brave!”

“You were brave because you were scared, Joy! You’re brave because you still did something that was frightening. You saved yourself! You saved yourself until I got there!”

Dragon Little whimpered, not showing her face.

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#313: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 9: Dad to the Rescue?

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Father jumped to the dock quickly, a fire torch in his hand, looking around.

“Joy!” he whispered.

He was trying not to get the attention of the Wicked Wizards, but he needed to find his daughter. “Joy!”

Just a few moments ago he had disappeared, leaving her, a girl who had never known what night is, without light on the lightless Night Planet. But it had been just the beginning of his dream. He had woken up for a few minutes, then returned to his dreams moments later.

But things have changed since he had vanished.

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#312: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 8: In Darker Darkness

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

The Wicked Wizards were getting closer to my Dragon Little. I heard her scamper quickly, feel with her hands in complete darkness.

From the sound she was feeling the wooden crates.

My sharp dragon ears heard the soft squeak of a crate being opened from a few planets away.

I heard her drop into a soft something (fruit, perhaps?) and then close the crate above her.

A few seconds later, the Wicked Wizards walked into the room.

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#311: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 7: In Darkness

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Once Dragon Father had disappeared, and his burning torches with him, I could not see Dragon Little on the Night Planet.

My wings opened as I crouched in my new vantage point, automatically about to leap to her help and light the planet sky with the fire of my breath. But I stopped myself.

Whatever the trouble, she would need to toughen up. She was growing up. She was almost six. She would no doubt soon find the right place to explore in her father’s dream and find the way to other dreams, where real danger lurked for every every day.

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#310: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 6

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

“Dad, how can we fight guys like this?”

Dragon Little’s voice was losing some of its panic and fear in the total darkness of the Night Planet.

Dragon Father had led Dragon Little into a warehouse a bit off the pier. I remember the warehouse from the small glow that covered the planet when Joy had first stepped on it. But I could not see the warehouse now, not even with my sharp eyes. The darkness was complete on that planet in Dragon Father’s dream.

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#309: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 5

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

I could not see what happened next. Even though I had changed my vantage point, the darkness of the Night Planet was awesome. I have never seen such darkness in Dragon Father’s dreams in the three and a half years I have been here.

I heard Dragon Little try very hard and unsuccessfully not to squeal.

I heard Dragon Father’s breathing.

I heard him move the wheel of Bonny’s Revenge.

And I heard the sound of things appearing - it ist a soft sound of things that appear out of nowhere in the dream.

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#308: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 4

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Little and Dragon Father entered the shadow of night as they headed to the Night Planet.

A massive planet stood in between The Night Planet and the dreams’ two suns, so that it completely fell into darkness.

But not only the planet was in darkness: So were all its surroundings.

It did more than that: It blocked my own view from my hiding place. That first moment when Dragon Father made the Night Planet and its bigger sister planet appear, I had to climb out of my hiding place and fly to a better vantage point.

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