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,,,~/**@¶#                                          #¶@**/~,,,
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,,,~/**@¶#                                          #¶@**/~,,,
,,~/**@¶##                                          ##¶@**/~,,
,,,~/**@¶# i  fall  asleep  in the wrong throat and #¶@**/~,,,
,,,,~/**@¶ is not  so much dreaming as being forced ¶@**/~,,,,
,,,~/**@¶#         to imagine a scenario...         #¶@**/~,,,
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,,,~/**@¶#           ,,~/**@¶####¶@**/~,,           #¶@**/~,,,
,,,,~/**@¶ ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,~~/**@@**/~~,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ¶@**/~,,,,
,,,~/**@¶# ,,,,,~~~~~///*****@¶¶@*****///~~~~~,,,,, #¶@**/~,,,
,,~/**@¶## ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,~~/**@@**/~~,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ##¶@**/~,,
,,,~/**@¶#           ,,~/**@¶####¶@**/~,,           #¶@**/~,,,
,,,,~/**@¶                                          ¶@**/~,,,,
,,,~/**@¶#           big halls, arcades,            #¶@**/~,,,
,,~/**@¶##          filled with characters.         ##¶@**/~,,
,,,~/**@¶#                                          #¶@**/~,,,
,,,,~/**@¶ i get instructions for them, for what  i ¶@**/~,,,,
,,,~/**@¶# must imagine them  doing or saying. they #¶@**/~,,,
,,~/**@¶## have  some  agency,  but not  while  i'm ##¶@**/~,,
,,,~/**@¶#   looking. the instructions are beamed   #¶@**/~,,,
,,,,~/**@¶ into  my  mind,  spoken  from a god,  or ¶@**/~,,,,
,,,~/**@¶#             false demiurge.              #¶@**/~,,,
,,~/**@¶##                                          ##¶@**/~,,
,,,~/**@¶# sometimes  i'm too slow and fail to make #¶@**/~,,,
,,,,~/**@¶ them   do  what  i'm  instructed  before ¶@**/~,,,,
,,,~/**@¶# time's out, and then  they get punished. #¶@**/~,,,
,,~/**@¶##                                          ##¶@**/~,,
,,,~/**@¶# one of  them  got  his vocabulary shrunk #¶@**/~,,,
,,,,~/**@¶ down to only the  word he failed to  say ¶@**/~,,,,
,,,~/**@¶#      (roofs? rufus?), many were just     #¶@**/~,,,
,,~/**@¶##            physically maimed.            ##¶@**/~,,
,,,~/**@¶#                                          #¶@**/~,,,
,,,,~/**@¶ it   all   was   very    stressful   and ¶@**/~,,,,
,,,~/**@¶# repulsive. it felt like a  nightmare, or #¶@**/~,,,
,,~/**@¶##               fever dream.               ##¶@**/~,,
,,,~/**@¶#                                          #¶@**/~,,,
,,,,~/**@¶ i   haven't   tried   to   sleep   since ¶@**/~,,,,
,,,~/**@¶#                                          #¶@**/~,,,
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,,,~/**@¶#                                          #¶@**/~,,,
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