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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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..«:^$#### (here i am awakened by the morning crew) ####$^:«..
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