S03E301 Thirtieth, Part 1, Counting the Days

Guy Hasson
Age: 6.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Suzy and I count the hours after Justin disappears. 

We’ve talked to Joy ahead of time about what’s going to happen next. 

After the initial shock of living in Justin’s dream, of having a granddaughter we never heard of, of going with her and Justin to visit other people’s dreams, of experiencing life-threatening adventures almost at every turn, Suzy started getting used to life here. 

One day, a couple of months ago, she started inquiring about the dates. Justin created a calendar for her to hang on the wall in the living room, and she’s been silently marking the days. 

Now it was time.

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S03E300 The Beach, Part 3, Swimming Costume

Guy Hasson
Age: 9, Told by Grampa Walt

Can you create Glen Beach?” Madelyn asks Amahle. 

Amahle exhales, and suddenly beyond Suzy’s and mine small island, Justin’s ocean is covered with a beach bustling with people. Suzy gasps. The sand is a different color, the beach umbrellas are colorful, too, and there are so many people here, families, friends, people who came on their own. 

How could Amahle create such detail and such colors when she’s been blind from birth?!

“It is… magnifique,” Madelyn says. “I adore this place! And there is no need for suntan lotion!” 

Amahle laughs. In a second, her clothes are replaced by a one-piece bathing suit with a kind of - I don’t know the name for it - the kind that has a kind of a skirt around it at the bottom. 

“What is this?” Madelyn asks. 

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S02E298 The Beach, Part 1, So Close

Guy Hasson
Age: 9, Told by Grampa Walt

As usual, Amahle and Elvis appear on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge while Joy is still asleep. 

“Amahle,” I call her from the porch, where Suzy and I are sitting. “Let me help you down.” 

“I am perfectly fine, Walter.” She uses Elvis and her blind stick to lead her down the ramp which she already knows so well. 

As she’s halfway through, Madelyn appears behind her on her wheelchair.

Amahle stops and listens. After a second, she says, “Hello, Madelyn. Comment ça va?” 

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S02E297 Super Powers, Part 3, Forgetting

Guy Hasson
Age: 8, Told by Grampa Walt

There is that silence again. 

Is there a way that any of this, Joy’s life, can be explained? Is there a way that Suzy’s and my existence here for the last two years, more or less, can be explained? 

It’s obviously possible, but how is it possible? How is it that a human girl lives in the Dream? How is it that she has abilities here that she wouldn’t in the waking world? How is it that I, a scientist, have never given it too much thought? 

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S02E295 Super Powers, Part 1

Guy Hasson
Age: 8, Told by Grampa Walt

Suzy and I are sitting on rocking chairs on the porch of our house on the small island I’ve come to consider my home, when Justin appears on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge.

I get up as I see him disappear into Joy’s cabin. 

He comes out almost immediately, and motions for me to go back to my chair. 

He says something to Master Mind, and the two walk quickly down the ramp. 

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S02E292 Girls, Part 14, When Kids Attack

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

I reach out for Joy’s shoulder as she cries, while at the same time looking around for Justin to come and help. 

“Joy…” I begin, but a girl from class interrupts me. 

“Oh, look, someone made the pirate girl cry!” she says in a derogatory tone. 

“Hey!” Charlie steps in front of Joy. “Everybody cries!”

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S02E291 Girls, Part 13, The Two Mothers

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

I think the birthday party is starting to get a bit old. The kids are now separated into small groups, small groups of boys and small groups of girls. 

I see Charlie and Joy talk to another boy near the table. Trying to look like I’m not listening to them, I get closer to supposedly get a bit more juice.

“Yeah, but this is a costume,” the kid is saying. “That’s what you wear every day!” 

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S02E290 Girls, Part 12, Two Girls

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

While the kids play, Joy hangs to the side. She stands next to Master Mind, half leaning on him, as she eats a slice of pizza. Suzy and I stand next to Master Mind, drinking grape juice out of paper cups. 

Justin is in the kitchen, trying to help Catori. 

A young girl, also eating a slice of pizza, comes up to Joy.

“Breonna,” she tells Joy.

“Joy.” 

“I like what you did with the boys. That was funny.” 

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S02E289 Girls, Part 11, Surrogate

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

“Joy,” Justin tells her as she looks up at him with pain-filled eyes. “It’s your friend’s birthday party. He would really like you here. I think we should stay.” 

“I want to go,” she says softly and clings to him. 

Justin closes his eyes warily, then opens them and answers with the same tone of voice, “I think Charlie would really like us to stay. And it’s a good experience for you to see other birthdays.” 

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S02E288 Girls, Part 10, Life of the Party

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Joy is the life of the party after her display of her killer robot and her sword and laser pistol. But then Catori walks in, gets Joy to sheathe her sword, and the games begin. 

She starts the kids off playing Treasure Hunt, where the kids hunt down clues she left in their apartment. The game is sadly short, since Joy solves each and every clue and finds the next one at breakneck speed, with the kids following her. 

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S02E286 Girls, Part 8, Catori

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

“Yeah, uh, I’m, uh, Justin,” Justin shakes Kate’s hand. “Do parents shake hands when they meet? I really don’t know.” Charlie’s mother looks at him strangely. “I’m, uh, Joy’s dad. We’re, uh…Wow, I just realized I never met any parents at all as part of, uh, being a father, uh, Kate.” 

“She’s not Kate, don’t call her Kate,” Charlie says. “Her name’s Catori.” 

“It’s Kate,” Kate corrects her son. 

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S02E285 Girls, Part 7, Charlie’s Home

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Charlie agrees that Joy be in his birthday party, the one that already took place, but he refuses to have it in Justin’s dream. 

Justin brings Bonny’s Revenge to one of the suns, and we all leave with new jetpacks that Joy has just now made permanent. Master Mind, ever the chaperone, Justin, Charlie, Joy, me, and, for a change, Suzy who does not like flying from dream to dream but wants to see some of Charlie’s waking world. 

Charlie’s Shroom is now quite a distance below us, for some reason. Joy hasn’t been able to jump there for years. The physics of Dreams is weird. I am not even close to getting a handle on them yet.

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S02E284 Girls, Part 6, Justin’s Plan

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

I can see Justin waiting for the exact right second. 

It’s been a day for those in the waking world since the kids rode the flying elephants and since Justin decided it was time Joy somehow meet girls her age. 

Madelyn appeared first. She rolled down the ramp to the shore of the small island of our small suburban home. After a few nice hellos, we helped her off the wheelchair. On her two arms she went into the sea and began swimming. 

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S02E283 Girls, Part 5, Charlie and the Flying Elephant

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Charlie has been on the flying elephant for a good fifteen minutes now. The elephant is flying right above the deck, just the way it was before Charlie fell and woke up. 

Madelyn leaves for another corner of Justin’s dream to have her own dream. She takes Amahle with her, to leave at another corner of Justin’s universe and have her own dream. 

“You can do it! You can do it!” Joy cheers him on from below. 

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S02E282 Girls, Part 4, Getting Off the Flying Elephants

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

It turns out it’s not that easy to get off flying elephants. 

Justin returns, all smiles, just as Joy and Charley want to get back to Bonny’s Revenge, but the elephants’ wings prevent them from getting too close to the deck of Bonny’s Revenge while we’re all flying among the clouds. 

No one’s really worried. Justin or Charley could just summon something up. Amahle and Madelyn, who have joined our dream in the meantime, could do the same. And Joy has the jetpack in case all Dreamers disappear. But the kids want to find a way to jump off. 

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