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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 ...^^-;;*@
#@$$$-^^.. was placed upright a leaf from a palm ..^^-$$$@#
###@*$;-^. tree or giant fern. the boulevard was .^-;$*@###
@$-....... dimly lit, which allowed the pools that .......-$@
@****$;-^. were generously sprinkled throughout .^-;$****@
##@$$;^^.. each floor would reflect suggestive ..^^;$$@##
###@*$;-^. patterns on the marble. .^-;$*@###
#@@$;;;-^. .^-;;;$@@#
###@*$;-^. ; ; ; ; .^-;$*@###
@**$--.... ....--$**@
###@*$;-^. following the boulevard, two floors up .^-;$*@###
####@*$;-. i found her crying behind two fern .-;$*@####
###@*$;-^. vases. she was beautiful, and as i .^-;$*@###
###@*$;-^. approached, she looked up and sniveled. .^-;$*@###
#@*$$$;-^. in the nearest vase she had stuffed .^-;$$$*@#
###@*$;-^. both the shoes. .^-;$*@###
###@*$;-^. .^-;$*@###
###@*$;-^. i told her to follow, but she didn't .^-;$*@###
###@*$;-^. move or speak. so instead i said to .^-;$*@###
##**;^^^.. stay there, and ran to get her a better ..^^^;**##
###@*$;-^. pair of shoes that she would actually .^-;$*@###
#@**;;^... like. when i returned, having spent ...^;;**@#
@@@@*$;-^. more than i could really afford, she .^-;$*@@@@
###@*$;-^. was visibly impressed. i tried to sound .^-;$*@###
@*$;^..... cool, saying something like "what do .....^;$*@
#@***$;-^. you think, just because a girl has a .^-;$***@#
#@@*$;--^. freaky dad, she doesn't have taste?" .^--;$*@@#
###@*$;-^. but mouse girl just laughed at me. .^-;$*@###
#*$;--^... ...^--;$*#
#@@$$$;-^. she then took me by the hand and led me .^-;$$$@@#
###@*$;-^. out a side route to a closed-off .^-;$*@###
###@*$;-^. rooftop walking garden, full of juniper .^-;$*@###
###@*$;-^. and thuja. it was a late evening, and .^-;$*@###
###@*$;-^. the stars were glittering. being .^-;$*@###
###@*$;-^. closed, the garden had its light turned .^-;$*@###
@@@**$;-^. off, but we could still see our way .^-;$**@@@
@**$;^^... around by the light shining down from ...^^;$**@
##@@*$;-^. the windows of the higher floors. .^-;$*@@##
@@@@*$;-^. .^-;$*@@@@
#@@*$-^... she lay down in a patch of grass. i sat ...^-$*@@#
@@$;;;^... down on my knees, and then crawled ...^;;;$@@
@**$;-.... closer. she laughed at me again, and ....-;$**@
###@*$;-^. said - .^-;$*@###
@@*;;;-... ...-;;;*@@
###@*$;-^. ; ; ; ; .^-;$*@###
####@*;-^. .^-;*@####
##**;^.... (here i am awakened by the morning crew) ....^;**##
###@*$;-^. .^-;$*@###
#@*;;^.... ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ....^;;*@#
#@*;--.... ....--;*@#
###@*$;-^. .^-;$*@###
@$-^...... ......^-$@
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@$$;-^.... ....^-;$$@