All in Age: 8
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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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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We are stumped.
I guess I’m speaking first, then.
“Needless to say,” I begin, “there is no evidence that I am aware of back in the waking world that this can happen. Sleep, as far as we know, is simply neurons firing.”
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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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Today is quite a busy dream.
Colin flies into the dream early, since he’s in the earliest time zone. Suzy and I keep him busy in the living room while he waits for Justin. Master Mind follows him in, watching the Dreamer carefully in case he becomes obsessed.
Charlie appears first on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge, next to Joys cabin. He wakes Joy up, and joins her as she has her morning routine of breakfast, washing up, and all that down in our apartment.
Justin appears soon afterwards on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge, near the mast. Once he sees Joy isn’t there, he joins us.
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We are off again!
Over the last two weeks, we’ve had adventure after adventure with Madelyn. Madelyn has been in South America, getting ready for one of her races, so her dream time is the same as Justin’s and Charlie’s.
So day after day (I mean our days, not their days), when Justin appears, we get ready and head off to meet Madelyn on top of her Shroom. Then we decide where we should have our adventure: in Justin’s dream or in Madelyn’s.
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