All in Age: 8.5

S02E275 Return of the Tooth Fairy, Part 2, Master Mind and the Tooth Fairy

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

The Tooth Fairy flies over to look at Master Mind. Half his size, her wings keep her afloat so that her eyes are at the same level as his. I look at them, and it hits me that this is my life. A life inside a dream. A life in which everything is crazy, where reality shifts, where impossible creatures exist. This is my life, even as my ‘real self’ is back in Toronto living my actual life. This is a life I can never leave. I will never be back to the waking world.

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S02E274 Return of the Tooth Fairy, Part 1, The History of the Tooth Fairy

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Master Mind reaches the top first. Then Joy, then Justin.

They reach the top and disappear from view into the wormhole-like tear in the sky.

The big leaf holding Suzy, Charlie and I accelerates as we approach the top, and we are right behind them.

“Joy the Pirate!” I hear a female voice boom as everything changes around me and I find myself in a hall with a checkered floor, one that looks like it had been taken out of a chess board. “I have missed you!”

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S02E273 Tooth Island, Part 3, The Tooth Tree and the Slowpokes

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

We don’t wait more than a few seconds when suddenly something green begins to grow where the kids buried the Last Tooth Dust.

Then the green turns to leaves, then the leaves grow on a stem that grows up and up, widening and turning into a tree trunk. The trunk grows high, and the higher it goes, the thicker it grows. Branches and leaves extend from it every which way, hiding the trunk from view.

High above, the trunk appears to be almost a kilometer high, when the sky cracks open revealing another sky. It is as if a wormhole has appeared in the middle of the sky.

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S02E272 Tooth Island, Part 2, The Magic of Tooth Island

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

“All right, kids, you know the drill,” Justin says. “Dig a small hole!”

Joy and Charlie run forward, go down on their knees, and start burrowing in the desert sand with their hands.

For the last almost three years now, they’ve come here every time Joy lost one of her teeth. Yes, they know what to do. I’ve come with them every time, but they had never let me into the world of the Tooth Fairy because I couldn’t climb the Tooth Tree at my age.

“But, Justin,” I say. “You asked us to keep the tooth. How can you keep her last tooth if we’re going to bury it?”

Justin gives me a wink and a smile then returns to look at the kids.

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S02E271 Tooth Island, Part 1, Ahoy Maties!

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Suzy smiles, “Aye aye, captain!”

“Walter Shelley, are you ready to see the Tooth Fairy?”

I try to come up with something smart to say, like ‘ready as a bird of prey descending on a dead wolf’, but I feel I’ll regret it, so I just say, “I’m ready.”

“Is the last tooth here?”

Suzy raises the small plastic jar that holds it. “You asked me to put it in a–”

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S02E270 The Cool Fairy Prelude, Part 3, The Napkin

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

“I am practicing for the Paralympics today,” Madelyn tells us. She just appeared on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge and came down to our small home on the island, where Joy is sitting with Charlie and Justin and eating breakfast. “Do you want to come? Justin? Zhoy? Charlie? Suzy? Walt?”

Madelyn is going to participate in the Beijing 2008 Paralympics with her team, and she’s been practicing every day.

“I would like to see that,” I raise my hand.

“I want to–” Joy says with her mouth full, then clams up, looking guilty of something.

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S02E245 Back to Toronto Planet, Part 2, Crossing the Road

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

“You know we’ve never actually crossed a road? Like a road-road?” Justin stands with Joy in front of the Royal Ontario Museum on Toronto Planet. All we have to do now is cross the road.

When Justin arrived, he woke Joy up, and was on board for the idea of going to see a museum.

“Look left, right, left, right,” Justin explains to her. Suzy and I stand behind them patiently. Master Mind stands to the side.

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S02E243 Happy Kids

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

“Young lady, you are not getting on this ship!”

Justin appeared on Bonny’s Revenge a few moments ago. For some reason, he had fallen asleep in the middle of his night. Charlie and Joy had time to have their own adventure, with Master Mind and me chaperoning and no adult Dreamers around.

Charlie created marsh country, a land of swamps interrupted by a lot of trees and shrubbery. The two played catch and hide and seek for hours while Master Mind and I watched from the deck.

Justin appeared a few minutes ago and looked at them play and laugh.

Finally, tired, they began climbing the ramp. That is where Justin blocked them by firmly standing in their way.

“It’s my ship!” Joy says.

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S02E224 Girls’ Night Out, Part 5, Sleeping Suzy

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

After all the congratulations and the happiness at Amahle’s news, Madelyn wakes up and disappears. Immediately afterwards, Amahle disappears.

Justin puts his hand around Joy’s shoulders, “How was the Girls’ Night, Joy?” he asks with a smile.

“It was fun! Amahle let me taste a little bit of something called ‘Liquer’.”

“Oh, yeah?”

“Just a little bit!”

“How was it?”

“I spit it out!”

Justin laughs.

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02E223 Girls’ Night Out, Part 4, Amahle’s News

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

The music that fills the dream feels drunker and drunker as the hours pass. I didn’t know if people can get drunk in the dream, but from the music that comes from Amahle’s head, it certainly sounds like it.

Eventually, the limo returns to park right next to our island.

The limo driver takes Madelyn out and places her on the wheelchair that appears on our island next to him. Amahle steps out with Elvis. Suzy is after her.

But Joy doesn’t come out.

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02E222 Girls’ Night Out, Part 3, Father of the Year

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

About an hour into their ‘girls’ night’, music begins to fill Justin’s dream.

This is Amahle, no doubt. She is a singer, she writes and composes songs. And there’s music in her head, which in the dream is music we can all hear.

This is really happy and exciting music. Were I any good at dancing, I would be moved to dance. But I am a man of thought, logic, and brain. I am not that good with my body, not with sports and not with dancing.

A few minutes later, there are fireworks over Johannesburg.

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02E221 Girls’ Night Out, Part 2, As Strong as a Girl

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Amahle feels around with her hand once Joy comes back from her cabin, having put her toothbrush and toothpaste in place. “Joy,” Amahle touches her cheek, then her shoulder. “I want to do something nice. I want us to have fun! Can you get excited for that?”

“I want to go,” Joy says. “It sounds like a thing you do in the waking world.”

“It is,” Madelyn says.

“On special occasions,” Amahle adds. “This is a special occasion.”

“But why only girls? What kind of adventure is it? Why can’t Charlie come? I mean, he’s a dreamer. So it doesn’t matter that he’s not as strong as a girl.”

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02E220 Girls’ Night Out, Part 1, Blech

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Madelyn and Amahle appear on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge within minutes of each other. Amahle is in Johannesburg, as usual. Madelyn is back home in France. She keeps telling me which city she’s in, but I can’t remember. I used to remember everything, but now…There are facts that escape me.

In any case, their time zones are one hour apart, and apparently they’ve fallen asleep around the same time.

I look through the window in our living room and see Madelyn and Amahle talking to each other. Madelyn is with her regular wheelchair, not her flying one.

Joy comes out of the cabin and they talk to her.

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S02E192 Joy’s Shadow, Age: 8, Exactly, Not Precisely

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Suzy shakes her head. “She’s so cute. She’s so beautiful. But look at her, she only grows wilder with every year.”

I nod. “She can’t be tamed.”

Suzy throws me a look. “I don’t like that word. That's not a word you use on people.” Then she nods, “You’re right, though. She can’t.”

“I don’t think she should, Suzy,” I tell her. “She would never survive the Dream outside if she was tame.”

Suzy sighs.

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S02E143 The Power of the Dreamer, Part 5, Ow!

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

The kids calm down a bit. Joy seems to have forgotten that we think she is not treated like a child. Charlie has stopped trying to change the way he looks. The adults, by which I mean the Dreamers, are not back yet from their various adventures. And the kids sit down where they started, legs hanging out of the railing, and looking at Joy’s scraped knee.

For some reason, Charlie accidentally touches her knee.

“Ow,” he says, as if it hurt him. “Sorry.”

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S02E142 The Power of the Dreamer, Part 4, Old Charlie, Old Joy

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Joy makes an unhappy face. “I wish I could be a grownup. People would stop treating me like a kid!”

Charlie looks at her with shock. “Who treats you like a kid?”

“Everyone treats me like a kid! Everyone!”

Charlie shakes his head almost violently. “Joy. No one treats you like a kid. Your dad lets you go on adventures! He lets you drive Bonnie’s Revenge. You can go into strange places. You do super dangerous things and no one tells you anything. You don’t have to go to school. You don’t have to do homework. You don’t have to do almost anything that kids have to do. Everyone treats you like an adult!”

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S02E141 The Power of the Dreamer, Part 3, Charlie’s Growth Spurt

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

“Ooh, you know what!” Charlie, now bearded and moustached, tells Joy amidst the two of them laughing.

“What, what?”

“I think… I think…” he concentrates and his beard and moustache disappear. He finally looks like a kid again. That was too strange to look at.

“What if I can be a grownup?”

“A grownup?!”

“Old. Like your dad or something.”

“Ooh! Do it!”

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S02E140 The Power of the Dreamer, Part 2, Charlie Goes Crazy

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

“I-know-I-know-I-know!” Charlie tells Joy.

They’ve just finished inventing various scrapes and gashes that Charlie makes appear on his body. He makes them appear, they laugh, it doesn’t hurt, and he makes them go away.

“What-what-what!” Joy is speaking at twice her normal speed.

“I’ll make myself bald!”

Joy opens her mouth in shock. “Can you do that?”

“I don’t know. Let’s try!”

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