“There’s an emergency on Dragon Planet,” Dragon Father said out of nowhere. Dragon Little had just eaten her breakfast and brushed her teeth, when suddenly Dragon Father shouted out the mission of the day.
This was the way their adventures sometimes began: Dragon Father would declare something, and then the idea in his mind would take form all around them.
“Dragon Planet?” Dragon Little, now just a four-year-old girl, looked at him excitedly. I was the only dragon she had ever seen, at least since she and her father rescued me two years previously, and she loved spending time with me. “Let’s go!”
Ten minutes later, Bonny’s Revenge, the flying pirate ship that served as their home, circled a new planet that had not been there before, and flew closer.
“The dragons that called us are behind those mountains,” Dragon Father said.
But when they reached the mountains, there were no dragons.
“Ah! They’ve had to escape into the tunnels!”
They flew Bonny’s Revenge into the dragon tunnels in the mountains. But there were no dragons there, either.
“Dad, where did they all go?” Dragon Little asked.
During this day of ‘adventure’, Dragon Father could not find any dragons. No matter what answer he gave Dragon Little about where they had gone, there were no dragons anywhere.
Of course there were no dragons. There could not be dragons. For dragons cannot be summoned by the dreamers. Dragons are never dreamt by the dreamers. Dragons are from the dream itself, and anyone who sees a dragon did not dream her.
After a few hours of frustration, Dragon Father summoned the horn that calls for me. But I did not come, either. I watched the events, and felt it would be an important lesson to teach Dragon Little that dragons cannot be summoned simply because a dreamer wishes it.
The ‘Dragon Planet’ had no dragons, no remnants of dragons, no bodies of dragons, no footprints of dragons, not the smallest clue that would show that dragons had actually lived here at any time.
After hours of disappointment, Dragon Father disappeared. He no doubt woke up wherever his real home ist. When he disappeared, the Dragon Planet disappeared with him.
Dragon Little watched its disappearance from the deck of Bonny’s Revenge with a sad expression on her face.
—Told by The Red Dragon