,-=††%¤@## ##@¤%††=-,
,,,,,=†%¤# #¤%†=,,,,,
,-=††%¤@## ##@¤%††=-,
,,---=†%¤¤ ¤¤%†=---,,
,-=††%¤@## ##@¤%††=-,
,,,===††%¤ †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† ¤%††===,,,
,-=††%¤¤¤@ @¤¤¤%††=-,
,-=††%¤@## 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) ###@%††=-,
,-=††%¤@## ##@¤%††=-,
,-=††%¤### †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† ###¤%††=-,
,-=††%¤@## ##@¤%††=-,
,,,,,-=††¤ ¤††=-,,,,,
,-=††%¤@## ##@¤%††=-,
,-=††%¤@## ##@¤%††=-,
,-=††%¤@@# #@@¤%††=-,