We knew we were being led into a trap.

I flew low, following my fake father, a robot made to look like a dragon. Dragon Father, riding on top of me, seemed calm rather than tense. It was his adventure. He had created it in his subconscious. This ist what he had wanted. This ist what he enjoyed.

My fake father looked back and motioned at a volcano ahead of us.

He flew up, then coasted down, gliding into a dark cave entrance at the bottom of that volcano.

For a second, I hesitated. I remembered that sometimes when Dragon Father knows I am part of the adventure, he creates weapons that can cause me great harm, in order to make things harder for me.

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“Tell us where they took all the dragons,” Dragon Father said. “It must be a big place.”

“It is not far,” my fake father said. “Two minutes’ flight in that direction will lead us to an island with another volcano. Underneath that volcano is a cavern big enough to hold a thousand dragons. Our enemies have taken all the dragons there!”

Dragon Father shook his head. “Oh no! Then we have to go!”

I smiled inwardly. Dragon Father was clearly acting and acting badly.

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“There are no dragons on the planet,” I told Dragon Little and Dragon Father once Dragon Little calmed down.

“Ooh, I know!” Dragon Father exclaimed. “They are all off on a mission! We should join them!”

I shook my head somberly, determined to teach Dragon Little about the harsh life that awaits her outside this dream, the harsh life she will eventually be faced with when she finds the way out of her father’s dream.

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“There it is!” Dragon Father stopped the silly story he was telling Dragon Little about me as a planet appeared in space in front of Bonny’s Revenge.

“Dragon Planet ahoy!” Dragon Little ran to the very front of the bow and looked down. “It’s so beautiful!”

I was surprised by the fact that Dragon Father succeeded in summoning a dragon planet at all. Last time he tried it, it ended in failure.

I stood up in my hiding place. Will he be able to summon a dragon in his dream? He won’t! It’s impossible! But how did he summon a dragon planet?

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“Let me tell you something you never knew about Red,” Dragon Father told his daughter with a big smile on his face.

He was still helming Bonny’s Revenge as they headed for the ‘dragon home planet’.

Dragon Little pinned her stare to Dragon Father. I listened quite intently, as well. I wondered what he would invent and whether it would hurt me or amuse me.

“Did you know…” Dragon Father’s tone became conspiratorial. “That Red wanted to be a pirate when she was young?”

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“Where’s the dragon home planet?” Dragon Little asked.

Dragon Father and Dragon Little stood at the wheel of Bonny’s Revenge as Dragon Father piloted the ship. Bonny’s Revenge began to rise out of earth’s ocean water.

“Oh, far far far away. So far away that we’d never been. That’s why we’ve never been there.”

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