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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. ..=/%%####
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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. ..=/%%####
##%%//=... ...=//%%##
####%%/=.. 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 - ..=/%%####
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####%%/=.. / / / / ..=/%%####
####%%/=.. ..=/%%####
####%%/=.. (here i am awakened by the morning crew) ..=/%%####
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