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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. ##¶@%^=~~.
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.~~=^%@¶## 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. ##¶@%^=~~.
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.~~=^%@@@# one of them got his vocabulary shrunk #@@@%^=~~.
....~~=%@@ down to only the word he failed to say @@%=~~....
.~~=^%¶### (roofs? rufus?), many were just ###¶%^=~~.
.~~=^%@### physically maimed. ###@%^=~~.
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....~=^^@¶ it all was very stressful and ¶@^^=~....
.~~~~=%@@@ repulsive. it felt like a nightmare, or @@@%=~~~~.
.~~=^%@¶## fever dream. ##¶@%^=~~.
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.~~=^%@¶## i haven't tried to sleep since ##¶@%^=~~.
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