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,:~\†¤£###                                          ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£## i  fall  asleep  in the wrong throat and ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£### is not so much dreaming as  being forced ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£##         to imagine a scenario...         ##£¤†\~:,,
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,,:~\†¤£##           ,:~\†¤£######£¤†\~:,           ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£### ,,,,,,,,::::::~~\†¤££¤†\~~::::::,,,,,,,, ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£## :::::~~~~~\\\††¤¤¤£##£¤¤¤††\\\~~~~~::::: ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£### ,,,,,,,,::::::~~\†¤££¤†\~~::::::,,,,,,,, ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£##           ,:~\†¤£######£¤†\~:,           ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£###                                          ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£##           big halls, arcades,            ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£###          filled with characters.         ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£##                                          ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£### i  get instructions for them, for what i ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£## must imagine  them doing or saying. they ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£### have  some agency,  but  not  while  i'm ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£##   looking. the instructions are beamed   ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£### into  my  mind,  spoken  from  a god, or ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£##             false demiurge.              ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£###                                          ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£## sometimes i'm too slow and  fail to make ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£### them   do  what  i'm  instructed  before ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£## time's out, and then  they get punished. ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£###                                          ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£## one of them  got  his  vocabulary shrunk ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£### down to only the word he  failed to  say ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£##      (roofs? rufus?), many were just     ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£###            physically maimed.            ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£##                                          ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£### it   all   was   very    stressful   and ###£¤†\~:,
,,:~\†¤£## repulsive. it  felt like a nightmare, or ##£¤†\~:,,
,:~\†¤£###               fever dream.               ###£¤†\~:,
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,:~\†¤£### i   haven't   tried   to   sleep   since ###£¤†\~:,
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