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“Joy, I have something special planned for today!”
Dragon Father was quite excited as he told this to Dragon Little while she was eating her breakfast of pizza and carrot juice.
I have noticed the number of days that have passed and I knew the date. I knew that tomorrow would be Dragon Little’s sixth birthday. I became excited myself, since I believed that Dragon Father for once would not forget Dragon Little’s birthday.
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Dragon Little’s fourth birthday was over, and when it ended, thoughts entered my mind.
These were thoughts I did not care about, but they came.
I thought of my own birthdays… of my fourth birthday, so many centuries ago. I thought of how I had been a slave, how, at this stage, while I was still… pliable… the evil ones had me do their bidding by hurting me and hurting me and hurting me.
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“Let’s see, let’s see, let’s see…” Dragon Father drawled slowly.
They were still sitting on the plank as Bonny’s Revenge rested calmly on the waveless ocean. Bother of them were looking out. Dragon Little was sitting between Dragon Father’s legs, on the edge of the plank.
Both seemed happy to sit there and let Dragon Father find nicknames for Dragon Little. He had just realized he had never given her one, and for a reason that seemed to come from his waking world, he thought it was important to give her one.
“Let’s see… I can’t find a shorter version of ‘Joy’, so… What do people call Joys?”
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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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Dragon Father had flown with a jetpack to Bonny’s Revenge, waiting for them high above the base of the Martian Space Pirates.
He navigated the ship down to the Martian earth, where Dragon Little and the handcuffed Martian Space Pirates waited for them.
Dragon Little, only four years old, danced a little dance. “I win! And you lose! I win and you lose!”
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Dragon Little stood in the doorway, little sword in one hand and little laser gun in the other.
Inside stood a Martian Space Pirate, three times taller than her, a large sword in his scabbard and a big laser gun behind his back. Behind him stood three more Martian Space Pirates. All of them looked at the door as he opened.
“Ha ha!” Dragon Little shouted at them. “I win! You lose!”
Dragon Father, standing beyond the fence, and looking from afar, slapped his forehead. “Never say you win before you win, Joy! We talked about that!”
The Martian Space Pirates were surprised for an instant. Then they stood up as one and all four armed themselves.
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There were three Martian Space Pirates inside. The Martian Space Pirates are one of the few criminals that Dragon Little and Dragon Father never caught in all the years I had been there. They remained behind when Dragon Father disappeared, but they never cause too much trouble when he ist gone unless they are already a part of the adventure.
Dragon Little took out her laser pistol and unsheathed a small sword.
“Don’t go in through the front door, Joy,” Dragon Father whispered to himself.
Dragon Little went to the front door, armed in both hands.
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Dragon Father and Dragon Little landed inside the base of the Martian Space Pirates.
Their hang gliders disappeared as soon as they landed.
Although I knew it to be Dragon Little’s birthday, Dragon Father had never mentioned it - or what a birthday ist in all the time I had spent with them so far. And so Dragon Little did not know it. Perhaps it ist also true that Dragon Father would not know it. But then, how ist it that he came to raise Dragon Little?
I do not know the answer to that one. I had only arrived when they were already together, seemingly forever.
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High above the mountains of Mars, Dragon Little stood on the railing of Bonny’s Revenge holding her hang glider. Keeping her balance perfectly, she looked down.
Dragon Father looked at her from the wooden deck, holding his own hand glider. He had an amused smile on his face.
“Are you sure you’re okay doing this, Dad?” he asked his daughter.
She tried to hold her hang glider correctly, but it was awkward.
“I’ve done this maaaaany times, Joy,” she said. “Trust me.”
She held on to it correctly. “Are you coming, slowpoke?” she said.
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Bonny’s Revenge arrived at Mars.
“Look, Joy, over there!” Dragon Little told Dragon Father. She was now playing as Dragon Father, and he, apparently, as Dragon Little.
“That’s the base of the Martian Space Pirates!” Dragon Father said. His headache was mostly gone now, and he seemed to be willing to play along with his daughter on this adventure.
In front of them, mountains appeared out of a mist. Dragon Father had created them - his subconscious did, at least.
“Very good, Joy! Very good!” Dragon Little told her father. “You’re getting really good at this!”
Dragon Father smiled and covered his mouth with his hand.
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“Martian Space Pirates? Joy, they’re a tough group. You can’t take them alone.”
“I’m Justin the Pirate! You’re Joy!”
“Ah, right.”
“Don’t be such a lily-livered wuss, Joy!”
“What?” Dragon Father looked up in surprise. That was not a phrase Dragon Little or Dragon Father had used on each other.
“Don’t be a wuss, Joy! Get up!” she commanded. “We’re going on adventure, not vacation!”
Dragon Father collapsed on the deck, laughing.
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Another year of freedom from my centuries of slavery had passed. I was free and watching over those who had freed me, silently, secretly, guarding the amazing human girl Joy Shelley, whom I lovingly call Dragon Little. With every day that passed my love for her grew, and how I did wish that I could have children and to have a child like her.
Another year had passed, and once again I was the only one who noticed that Dragon Little’s birthday had come once more. Dragon Father never mentioned her birthday and therefore Dragon Little never talked about it. Perhaps she did not know she had one.
But I knew when she was born. So many out there, outside Dragon Father’s dreams, knew when she was born, were looking for this special child.
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Dragon Little, my Dragon Little, was all alone on her third birthday.
Dragon Father did not appear as usual. He was gone. He must have stayed up the entire night in his waking world and from the time he disappeared in the middle of an adventure to the time he reappeared on Bonny’s Revenge, almost two days have passed.
In the year I have been in his dream, in the year since he and Dragon Little rescued me from slavery, he had never mentioned her birthday. Nor did he mention it in the next year.
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