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Suzy sighs. “A friend sacrificed his life for hers when she was six,” she says as she looks at me meaningfully.
“That is incorrect, Pirate Mother,” Master Mind says. “Two friends sacrificed themselves for her when she was six.”
Suzy looks at him, and her gaze lingers around the thread that she and Joy had sewn Master Mind’s two halves back together.
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Suzy and I wait for Justin on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge. Joy has banished us from our own home because we asked too many questions. Charlie has not been banished, but he stands there on the deck and looks at Joy from afar and does not move to join her.
Justin finally appears on the deck, always in the same place, always at the same angle.
He sees Suzy’s and my worried looks and immediately says, “What happened? Is she okay?”
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Joy and Charlie keep playing in the beach sand with their toys for another minute, when Charlie says, “You know, it’s hard to convince people with words, Joy.”
He had just been talking about how, when he grows up, he wants to use words to explain to people how bad the Hopi have been treated.
“Yeah?” She’s immersed in the game, holding a rake in her right hand, and paving a way towards their sand castle.
“Yeah. I keep telling people you’re real and no one believes me.”
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We prepare to go to Amahle’s dream: Justin, Joy, Charlie, Master Mind, and me. Suzy refuses to make the jumps from dream to dream. I am still getting used to Master Mind carrying me during those jumps, but I wouldn’t miss it.
Everyone including me gets jetpacks that Joy has touched and made permanent.
Justin creates a long, strong rope that Joy touches to make permanent even if Justin wakes up. That rope is tied to her abdomen and to Master Mind’s abdomen even before we leave.
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“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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“... And that is why General Hawk was the greatest soldier who ever lived and will be remembered by us forever.”
A soldier of General Hawk’s Fifth Flying Regiment had spoken for a couple of minutes and now he was finally wrapping it up.
“Thank you,” Justin says. “We have one more thing to do before we can say goodbye.”
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“This is all my fault” Charlie shouts, crying.
“Charlie,” Justin lowers Joy and she takes a step towards Charlie. “What’s your fault?”
“General Hawk died because my dad killed him! My nightmare killed General Hawk!” Charlie is crying. “And he’s dead because I couldn’t kill my dad! Because I killed my dad!”
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“General Hawk,” Justin turns to the grave. “You protected my daughter when she was all alone.” Joy clings to his pants as he speaks. “You saved her life at the cost of yours. You became a dear friend to her.”
Joy buries her head in Justin’s pants. He puts his hand on her head and continues. “You were a hero and a great man and a great friend. I will always thank you for everything you did.”
Everyone nods. The dozens of bird people filling the backyard of our apartment on this tiny island is nodding as well.
Justin takes Joy in his hands. “You want to say a few words to General Hawk?”
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On the small island that now holds Suzy’s and mine’s suburban apartment, there isn’t a lot of room. Bonny’s Revenge, my son’s flying warship, is docked in the front. There’s a heap of dust which apparently has now remained behind and forever, right next to Bonny’s Revenge. Its purpose, apparently, is to get dirty post showers. And now, in the back, is a grave.
Joy, Justin, and Charlie dug a small hole, enough to put in a tombstone.
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“What are you doing?”
“I’m trying to bring back General Hawk.”
“Hmmm…”
I step back and give him space. He has his eyes closed and he looks like he’s trying to summon up a mystical force.
He opens his eyes and looks around.
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Dragon Father appeared on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge while Dragon Little was still asleep in the Infinite Prison, held gently by General Hawk.
“Joy! Joy!” Dragon Father called out after seeing Dragon Little was not in her cabin.
A quick search revealing nothing sent him down to the winding stairway into the infinite corridor and out of my eyesight.
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“For many days, now, and perhaps weeks or even months, your mind will return to that moment when you killed the Goblin Monster. It will return to it and try to find another way, another solution, another path. Maybe it will succeed, maybe it won’t.”
“There was no other path, General Hawk.”
“Maybe it will succeed, maybe it won’t,” the general repeated, not conceding her point. “It would not matter, for it is done. Your mind will return to the terrible emotions you are feeling now again and again and again. For weeks and even months. And perhaps… Perhaps your feelings will turn to hate of self, hating what you did. And then… in the future, the next time you kill, it will be easier. And that time after that, easier still.”
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Dragon Little cried. It gushed out of her like a tidal wave.
I could not see her, since she was in the Infinite Prison in the belly of Bonny’s Revenge.
I wanted to hold her and make it better. But I could not.
As she cried, I heard the rustling of the iron bars of General Hawk’s cell. And then I heard the sound of skin and feathers on human skin: he was not caressing her. He had reached out of the bars with his arm and burnt wing and was holding her as much as he could.
“I killed the Goblin Monster!” she said again, crying.
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I have told you of the day when Dragon Father decided to teach Dragon Little that killing ist necessary. I have told you how he created a dream that forced her to kill the Goblin Monster.
I have not told you of the things that happened afterwards, when Dragon Father was away and awake in what dreamers often call ‘the real world’.
After Dragon Father disappeared, Dragon Little walked the deck from side to side for more than an hour. She climbed the mast and sat in the crow’s nest. She sat on the plank and stared at the ocean.
She took Bonny’s Revenge for a flight around the stars and quickly returned to the ocean, having stopped for nothing on the way.
That day, Dragon Little fell asleep in the crow’s nest.
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“Waaaah!” she mimicked his crying insultingly. “Waaaaah!”
The soldier, Colonel Doug Widget, looked up, shocked.
“Waaaah!” she repeated. She had given the task of lifting his spirits so he can save the world, all as part of Dragon Father’s lesson to teach her that heroes do cry.
So far it was not working.
“Waaaah!” she repeated, louder and in a more insulting tone.
The soldier laughed.
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For the third time since I had arrived to Dragon Little’s dream, it was Dragon Little’s birthday.
She was five years old now. She was growing. Inside of me an unease grew.
One day, I knew, she would find the way out of her father’s dreams. And who knows what waits for her right outside his dream? Those who are searching for her, those who would destroy her life, might just be outside, searching, always searching.
Dragon Father, however, did not at all seem to be worried. He was happy this day, happy to not go on adventure, happy to sit on the plank and watch the ocean waves, happy and smiling.
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“Weapons shop! Weapons shop! Weapons shop!” 4-year-old Dragon Little was jumping up and down and shouting this mantra all the way from Earth’s ocean to the asteroid belt and to the asteroid that held the weapons shop.
It was time for their yearly visit to the small meteor that only appeared once a year in the asteroid belt.
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It is time I told you how the Evil Fairy Forest King died. I have told you of the events that led to his death. I have told you how his behavior affected the 5-year-old Dragon Little. And I have told you how she discovered his body.
But it is something I should relate. Because you need to know what happens in the belly of Bonny’s Revenge.
The prisoners in the Infinite Prison are all villains captured by Dragon Little and Dragon Father during their adventures. When Dragon Father is away, in his waking world, the villains become Dragon Little’s companions.
What does that mean? You will see.
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