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2026-07-13

Ride. Border. Proof.

I'm in a city somewhere else and I want to catch a ride to go explore the city but there are border controls and they ask for proof of income. I say I don't have any proof with me and they insist I use my banking app. I don't remember how I get around it and manage to pass without showing them anything. But then I'm trying to catch a ride back and no one wants to give me one, I have to be very insistent.


Spaces. Creator. House.

I'm looking for a house and I find a woman who creates spaces and I tell her I want her to create my space and she says she can do that with dreams too. I follow her and she shows me the spaces she's created. It's not what I was expecting, she has a particular style, but I think it could work. She shows me a super fancy house and tells me she doesn't think it's for me because I'd have to have strangers for the opening and she thinks I should have a space that doesn't depend on others and I agree with her.


New House. Rules. Date.

I've moved into the new house and I'm meeting people. I'm in a place with several people and there are plates of food like a buffet. There are certain rules but I want to do things differently and I break some rules. Then I run into Johnny and he wants to help me and also wants to go on a date. I'm not particularly interested but I know being on good terms with him will help me get things done my way there. I go to change clothes and I'm choosing underwear. I choose red underwear. I see my reflection in the mirror and I'm wearing a loose black and green t-shirt that looks a bit like Sporting's colors, and I have black sports shorts. I'm wearing white socks and tap dance shoes, and I think it's a bit strange. I know it's not a date outfit but I'm not interested in the date.


Restaurant. Bags. Carnival.

I'm with a group and Félix from high school is there. At some point it's just the two of us in some kind of restaurant and we're getting closer. Gradually I start feeling more comfortable and physically closer. I don't remember what we're talking about but I know I'm opening up to him more.

Then the others arrive and we catch a bus or van, like one of those school trip ones. I end up being the last to get off because they put my backpack by the window and I'm annoyed. I'm aware I'm overreacting.

When we get off I grab my backpack and I also have another bag like a briefcase and they're heavy and I'm annoyed that I'm carrying them alone. Someone comments something and I say that after traveling through Asia this is nothing.

I go to Filipa's house and I don't see anyone inside. The door is open but I don't feel comfortable going in so I put my things down by the door. Then someone grabs me and I don't know what to do and I just see someone kick and trip the person who's grabbing me. Then I see Filipa, even though it's not her. It's Carnival. I think she's the one who helped me and I thank her and she says it was her mother. I'm surprised and say the foot I saw was so small it certainly couldn't be her mother's, but it was. Her mother isn't the mother I know, it's someone different, a small woman dressed in a kimono for Carnival. She greets me and I thank her for the help and she says it's nothing.