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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 ##%^«.....
.-«^$%##@@ went looking for the mouse. @@##%$^«-.
.-«^$%##@@ @@##%$^«-.
.-«^$%##@# the building was enormous and mazelike. #@##%$^«-.
.-«^$%##@@ walls, floors and pillars were set in @@##%$^«-.
.......«$# green marble. throughout the house ran #$«.......
.-«^$%#### a main boulevard, wide as a street, ####%$^«-.
.-«^$%##@@ framed with clay vases dark as obsidian @@##%$^«-.
.-«^$%##@@ and taller than a person. in each vase @@##%$^«-.
.-«^%##@## 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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