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@#$†:-:,,, mouse girl likes shoes ,,,:-:†$#@
#@#$†:-:,, ,,:-:†$#@#
##@#$†:-:, : : : : ,:-:†$#@##
#@#$†:-:,, ,,:-:†$#@#
@#$†:-:,,, in this dream i was a girl of maybe ,,,:-:†$#@
#$†:-:,,,, sixteen years, together with my dad in ,,,,:-:†$#
$†:-:,,,,, a huge bath house / spa / hotel / ,,,,,:-:†$
#$†:-:,,,, shopping centre. dad was constatly ,,,,:-:†$#
@#$†:-:,,, pointing out hot girls to me. "you see ,,,:-:†$#@
#@#$†:-:,, that black-haired thing dissapearing ,,:-:†$#@#
##@#$†:-:, behind the clothes rack? oof!" he'd ,:-:†$#@##
#@#$†:-:,, say. he was always very creepy about ,,:-:†$#@#
@#$†:-:,,, this, going for girls my age. ,,,:-:†$#@
#$†:-:,,,, ,,,,:-:†$#
$†:-:,,,,, this night he had just tried to woo a ,,,,,:-:†$
#$†:-:,,,, girl he called a "mouse" by buying her ,,,,:-:†$#
@#$†:-:,,, shoes, but she had accepted them only ,,,:-:†$#@
#@#$†:-:,, to run away immediately afterward. dad ,,:-:†$#@#
##@#$†:-:, was a bit bummed but dropped it ,:-:†$#@##
#@#$†:-:,, quickly. i said goodnight to him and ,,:-:†$#@#
@#$†:-:,,, went looking for the mouse. ,,,:-:†$#@
#$†:-:,,,, ,,,,:-:†$#
$†:-:,,,,, the building was enormous and mazelike. ,,,,,:-:†$
#$†:-:,,,, walls, floors and pillars were set in ,,,,:-:†$#
@#$†:-:,,, green marble. throughout the house ran ,,,:-:†$#@
#@#$†:-:,, a main boulevard, wide as a street, ,,:-:†$#@#
##@#$†:-:, framed with clay vases dark as obsidian ,:-:†$#@##
#@#$†:-:,, and taller than a person. in each vase ,,:-:†$#@#
@#$†:-:,,, was placed upright a leaf from a palm ,,,:-:†$#@
#$†:-:,,,, tree or giant fern. the boulevard was ,,,,:-:†$#
$†:-:,,,,, dimly lit, which allowed the pools that ,,,,,:-:†$
#$†:-:,,,, were generously sprinkled throughout ,,,,:-:†$#
@#$†:-:,,, each floor would reflect suggestive ,,,:-:†$#@
#@#$†:-:,, patterns on the marble. ,,:-:†$#@#
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#@#$†:-:,, : : : : ,,:-:†$#@#
@#$†:-:,,, ,,,:-:†$#@
#$†:-:,,,, following the boulevard, two floors up ,,,,:-:†$#
$†:-:,,,,, i found her crying behind two fern ,,,,,:-:†$
#$†:-:,,,, vases. she was beautiful, and as i ,,,,:-:†$#
@#$†:-:,,, approached, she looked up and sniveled. ,,,:-:†$#@
#@#$†:-:,, in the nearest vase she had stuffed ,,:-:†$#@#
##@#$†:-:, both the shoes. ,:-:†$#@##
#@#$†:-:,, ,,:-:†$#@#
@#$†:-:,,, i told her to follow, but she didn't ,,,:-:†$#@
#$†:-:,,,, move or speak. so instead i said to ,,,,:-:†$#
$†:-:,,,,, stay there, and ran to get her a better ,,,,,:-:†$
#$†:-:,,,, pair of shoes that she would actually ,,,,:-:†$#
@#$†:-:,,, like. when i returned, having spent ,,,:-:†$#@
#@#$†:-:,, more than i could really afford, she ,,:-:†$#@#
##@#$†:-:, was visibly impressed. i tried to sound ,:-:†$#@##
#@#$†:-:,, cool, saying something like "what do ,,:-:†$#@#
@#$†:-:,,, you think, just because a girl has a ,,,:-:†$#@
#$†:-:,,,, freaky dad, she doesn't have taste?" ,,,,:-:†$#
$†:-:,,,,, but mouse girl just laughed at me. ,,,,,:-:†$
#$†:-:,,,, ,,,,:-:†$#
@#$†:-:,,, she then took me by the hand and led me ,,,:-:†$#@
#@#$†:-:,, out a side route to a closed-off ,,:-:†$#@#
##@#$†:-:, rooftop walking garden, full of juniper ,:-:†$#@##
#@#$†:-:,, and thuja. it was a late evening, and ,,:-:†$#@#
@#$†:-:,,, the stars were glittering. being ,,,:-:†$#@
#$†:-:,,,, closed, the garden had its light turned ,,,,:-:†$#
$†:-:,,,,, off, but we could still see our way ,,,,,:-:†$
#$†:-:,,,, around by the light shining down from ,,,,:-:†$#
@#$†:-:,,, the windows of the higher floors. ,,,:-:†$#@
#@#$†:-:,, ,,:-:†$#@#
##@#$†:-:, she lay down in a patch of grass. i sat ,:-:†$#@##
#@#$†:-:,, down on my knees, and then crawled ,,:-:†$#@#
@#$†:-:,,, closer. she laughed at me again, and ,,,:-:†$#@
#$†:-:,,,, said - ,,,,:-:†$#
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@#$†:-:,,, ,,,:-:†$#@
#@#$†:-:,, (here i am awakened by the morning crew) ,,:-:†$#@#
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