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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. %*-.......
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.........- 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. %*-.......
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.........- 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 %*-.......
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