#318: Joy’s Third Birthday

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

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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#317: My Dad, the Hero

Guy Hasson
Age: 4.5, Told by The Red Dragon

They watched the two suns, Dragon Father sitting on the edge of the plank and dragon Little sitting on his legs.

Suddenly, she grabbed his arm, hugged it and said something I have never heard her say to her father.

“You’re a hero, Dad!”

Dragon Father was surprised and seemed shocked by what she said.

“What? What did you say?”

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#316: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 11: Sunset

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

With both Dragon Little and Dragon Father carrying torches on the Night Planet and the two of them working together, they defeated the three Wicked Wizards.

Dragon Little’s fingers and legs were shaking all the way through. But she said nothing to her father and did not complain.

Her fingers turned white holding on to the torch and would never release it.

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#315: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 11: Return of the Squashbucklers!

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

“Wow, you were so brave!” Dragon Father told Dragon Little, still hiding her face in his chest, still clinging as hard as she can to her after.

Inwardly, I nodded, agreeing with Dragon Father. She had shown bravery I have never seen in all the centuries I have lived.

“I’m scared,” she whined into his chest. “I’m not brave!”

“You were brave because you were scared, Joy! You’re brave because you still did something that was frightening. You saved yourself! You saved yourself until I got there!”

Dragon Little whimpered, not showing her face.

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#313: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 9: Dad to the Rescue?

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Father jumped to the dock quickly, a fire torch in his hand, looking around.

“Joy!” he whispered.

He was trying not to get the attention of the Wicked Wizards, but he needed to find his daughter. “Joy!”

Just a few moments ago he had disappeared, leaving her, a girl who had never known what night is, without light on the lightless Night Planet. But it had been just the beginning of his dream. He had woken up for a few minutes, then returned to his dreams moments later.

But things have changed since he had vanished.

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#312: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 8: In Darker Darkness

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

The Wicked Wizards were getting closer to my Dragon Little. I heard her scamper quickly, feel with her hands in complete darkness.

From the sound she was feeling the wooden crates.

My sharp dragon ears heard the soft squeak of a crate being opened from a few planets away.

I heard her drop into a soft something (fruit, perhaps?) and then close the crate above her.

A few seconds later, the Wicked Wizards walked into the room.

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#311: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 7: In Darkness

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Once Dragon Father had disappeared, and his burning torches with him, I could not see Dragon Little on the Night Planet.

My wings opened as I crouched in my new vantage point, automatically about to leap to her help and light the planet sky with the fire of my breath. But I stopped myself.

Whatever the trouble, she would need to toughen up. She was growing up. She was almost six. She would no doubt soon find the right place to explore in her father’s dream and find the way to other dreams, where real danger lurked for every every day.

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#310: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 6

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

“Dad, how can we fight guys like this?”

Dragon Little’s voice was losing some of its panic and fear in the total darkness of the Night Planet.

Dragon Father had led Dragon Little into a warehouse a bit off the pier. I remember the warehouse from the small glow that covered the planet when Joy had first stepped on it. But I could not see the warehouse now, not even with my sharp eyes. The darkness was complete on that planet in Dragon Father’s dream.

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#309: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 5

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

I could not see what happened next. Even though I had changed my vantage point, the darkness of the Night Planet was awesome. I have never seen such darkness in Dragon Father’s dreams in the three and a half years I have been here.

I heard Dragon Little try very hard and unsuccessfully not to squeal.

I heard Dragon Father’s breathing.

I heard him move the wheel of Bonny’s Revenge.

And I heard the sound of things appearing - it ist a soft sound of things that appear out of nowhere in the dream.

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#308: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 4

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Little and Dragon Father entered the shadow of night as they headed to the Night Planet.

A massive planet stood in between The Night Planet and the dreams’ two suns, so that it completely fell into darkness.

But not only the planet was in darkness: So were all its surroundings.

It did more than that: It blocked my own view from my hiding place. That first moment when Dragon Father made the Night Planet and its bigger sister planet appear, I had to climb out of my hiding place and fly to a better vantage point.

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#306: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 2

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

“Are you sure you’ve never seen a night?”

Dragon Father and Dragon Daughter were on their way towards their unfortunate adventure on The Night Planet to catch the Wicked Wizard. But during their flight, as he helmed Bonny’s Revenge, Dragon Father found it hard to believe that Dragon Little had never even experienced a night.

Dragon Little said, complaining, “I already told you.”

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#305: The Girl Who Never Saw Night, Part 1

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Little jumped on the plank just as Dragon Father jumped to the deck. “What’s night?”

Dragon Father turned around. “What do you mean?”

“What’s night? Is it like a knight with a sword?”

“No. Night, night. That thing that happens after the day. When you sleep.”

“What happens when I sleep?”

“Joy. When the suns go down. What’s the matter with you?”

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#304: Dragon Little

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

“Look, Dad, I’m a dragon!”

He looked at her and smiled.

She leapt on the railing and jumped into the air towards the deck, flapping her wings, “I’m Dragon Little! I’m Dragon Little!”

Dragon Father laughed. “You’re almost flying, Joy! Try again!”

She did. “I’m a dragon! I’m a dragon!”

He laughed again.

“You almost had it. One more time! I think this time you will fly!”

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#303: What Do You Want, Part 4

Guy Hasson
Age: 5, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Little was five years old when she freed a goblin.

As Dragon Father had told her in the beginning of their adventure, bad things have been happening in the Land of the Goblins. Evil tyrants have taken over. They killed male and female goblins that they felt threatened their rule, and put their children in prison.

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#302: What Do You Want, Part 3

Guy Hasson
Age: 4, Told by The Red Dragon

Joy Shelley, the girl I have come to call Dragon Little, was only a few weeks past being four and a half years old when I saw her do something I have never seen her do.

Her father, Justin Shelley, the one I call Dragon Father, had disappeared at the end of another fun adventure. Another prisoner had been added to the villains in the Infinite Prison in the infinite corridor in the belly of Bonny’s Revenge.

Dragon Little sat on the plank and stared glumly at the ocean.

Then, suddenly, she jumped up to a standing position on the plank, and walked back to the deck. She walked down the stairs which led to the Infinite Prison and out of my sight.

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#301: Space, the Final Frontier, Part 3

Guy Hasson
Age: 3.5, Told by The Red Dragon

I had just rescued Dragon Little without her knowing it was me from being captured by Captain Badass.

Dragon Father had disappeared not long ago after a full day of adventure, which meant that he would only return to his dream in sixteen or seventeen hours. If I were Dragon Little, now back aboard Bonny’s Revenge, outnumbered and without my father, I would run and hide using my faster ship.

But that ist not what Dragon Little did.

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