#$*--..... .....--*$#
#*///--... ...--///*#
#*-....... .......-*#
####$*/-.. ..-/*$####
####$*/-.. ..-/*$####
####$*/-.. //////////////////////////////////////// ..-/*$####
##*////-.. ..-////*##
####$*/-.. mouse girl likes shoes ..-/*$####
####$*/-.. ..-/*$####
##$/-..... / / / / .....-/$##
#####*/-.. ..-/*#####
#$/-...... in this dream i was a girl of maybe ......-/$#
####$*/-.. sixteen years, together with my dad in ..-/*$####
##*///.... 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) ..---//$$#
####$*/-.. ..-/*$####
#$$*/-.... //////////////////////////////////////// ....-/*$$#
#$//--.... ....--//$#
####$*/-.. ..-/*$####
#$/-...... ......-/$#
####$*/-.. ..-/*$####
#*/....... ......./*#