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Justin and Colin are on top of Big Ben, right underneath the tunnel, so Suzy and I can hear everything: The explosions, the destruction caused by the tentacle monster, and Joy calling out for her father.

“Joy! Look out!” Charlie shouts as a 3-meter tentacle heads their way.

Justin follows Charlie’s voice and looks down from Master Mind to the streets, and he sees Joy and Charlie just as Charlie clings to her like a human shield, and a rock appears all around them. Hopefully there is air to breathe within that rock.

“Joy! Oh, my god!” Justin yells “Colin! Colin! Stop!” he grabs Colin. “You’re having a nightmare! None of this is real!”

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Jul 26
Jul 26 S02E259 Colin’s Nightmares, Part 6, The Girl Who Needs Her Father

Master Mind grabs Suzy and me and activates his permanent jetpack. He flies us to Colin’s Shroom, next-door to Justin’s Shroom. Joy had already landed and gone into the tunnel, and Charlie, flying on his own, is right behind her.

We follow her in, Master Mind rushing forward.

“Dad!” I hear her yell. “Dad!”

As I go around the tunne’s bend, I see her standing on the edge of the tunnel. “He can’t hear me!” she tells Charlie. “Dad! Dad!”

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Jul 25
Jul 25 S02E257 Colin’s Nightmares, Part 4, Joy’s Legacy

When Charlie tries to explain what he means, Joy is so upset that I stop that discussion immediately. “We need your Dad,” I say.

But that doesn’t help. Justin can’t hear us and none of us dares even lean into Colin’s dream.

“I know who can explain this,” I tell Joy. “We’re going to Grandma Suzy.”

We leave Justin to play in Colin’s dream and go back to his dream.

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Jul 23
Jul 23 S02E256 Colin’s Nightmares, Part 3, Memories

It’s been an hour now of the tentacle monster throwing Justin and Colin all around the city.

Colin is busy running, and Justin is busy… not using weapons he can create to stop himself from being beaten.

We watch from the tunnel, Joy, Charlie, Master Mind and I. Joy is growing impatient. “He’s not using any powers!”

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Jul 23
Jul 23 S02E255 Colin’s Nightmares, Part 2, The Tentacle Monster

We can only watch from afar as Justin descends into a version of London that comes from horror stories. Joy and Charlie are seated on the edge of the tunnel that leads into this dream, the edge of one of the suns that shine into this world. Their legs are well within the dream, taking no risk. I lean on the round wall behind them, peering in. Master Mind stands next to me, watching Justin as well as Joy. He will stop her if she tries to get into Colin’s dream.

Justin lands next to Colin. A laser cannon appears on his arm, and he fires it at the tentacle that is chasing Colin.

Up here we don’t even hear the cannon fire.

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Jul 21
Jul 21 S02E254 Colin’s Nightmares, Part 1

Colin’s nightmares are dark and terrible, ones that Joy could never survive.

Joy wishes to come along, and Justin relents only as much as allowing her and Charlie to sit in one of the tunnels and look down into the dream.

“You may not ever, ever, ever set foot inside Colin’s dream! It will kill you!” he says.

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Jul 6
Jul 6 S02E70 The Dream with No Exit, Part 10: Justin the General

Something changes in Justin as soon as he is able to absorb that Joy can see into the dark dream while no one else can.

His back straightens. His voice becomes like that of a military commander, when he says, “Joy. Tell me what you see.”

She nods. “We’re at a beach. The woman is over there sitting on a beach chair.” Joy changes, as well. She isn’t the child asking her father for something she cadn’t have for the thousandth time. She is the adventurer I’d heard about. She’s giving a report of the hostile environment. “She has a beautiful dog sitting next to her. There are a few other people who came for the beach. And, I think, oh!”

“What?”

“A couple of penguins just came out of the water.”

“Monster penguins?”

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Jul 2
Jul 2 S02E68 The Dream with No Exit, Part 8: Being There

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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May 22
May 22 S02E34 Madelyn’s Dream, Part 3: Outside Justin’s Dream

Joy is the proof that this place is real. The Dream is real! Dreams happen in a real place! Because Joy lives here. Joy can make dreams like me real, she can make us stay. I have never thought, never believed, never supposed…

If there was a way to get this information to the outside world, to other scientists…!

“They’re called Shrooms,” Joy said. “I named them!”

“That’s my Shroom over there!” Charlie points down. “It was above us when I came here.”

Now it’s a couple of meters below us and to the side.

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May 22
May 22 S02E33 Madelyn’s Dream, Part 2: Walt’s Fear