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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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##@%$/--.. ........--------/$%@@%$/--------........ ..--/$%@##
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@%$/--.... ........--------/$%@@%$/--------........ ....--/$%@
%$/--.....           .--/$%@######@%$/--.           .....--/$%
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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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