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LD: Quack quack!

I'm in the bathroom of an apartment building. The bathroom has a large window that looks down on a lush courtyard and other buildings. There's no privacy at all; anyone in the courtyard or on other floors can see straight into it. I spot a woman in the courtyard looking up, so I point toward the hallway, hoping she'll stop staring at me! Good grief, the lack of privacy!

Since I often find bathrooms without privacy in my dreams, I decide to do a reality check. Seven fingers. Then six. Just to be sure, I pinch my nose: Hey, I'm dreaming!

The scenery shifts, and suddenly I'm in a different building downstairs, with the night outside. I try to go through the window but fail a few times. The window is like some kind of film I can’t pass through.

Clack!

The film breaks, and I'm outside.

I try to recall the Tier 3 tasks from the Icarus Project. Task 1, 2, 3... Cool, I remember them all!

"Let's try the first one..." I decide.

"Quack, quack, quack!" Oscar and Gaston, my little ducks, waddle up to me all jolly. Surely they don’t have anything to do with the first task...? I giggle because they’re distracting me.

But just as I think about maybe continuing with the tasks... I wake up.

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