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..-~;**§## mouse girl likes shoes ##§**;~-..
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....-~;**§ 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. *;~-......
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........-~ 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. ##§**;~-..
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..-~;**§## 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. ~-........
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......-~;* 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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