You realize that you’re barefoot too late, after the door’s already closed behind you. The floor under your feet is patterned cement and you’re inside a short tunnel. Up ahead you can hear music and fountains and you walk towards them.
You emerge outdoors. It’s still night and you can see the stars above. Lamps that look like glowing jellyfish light a path to an enormous organically shaped pool. It looks like a lagoon and has several islands with waterfalls inside of it. Women in mermaid outfits are singing on one of them.
Other people – servants? Guests? – walk around the pool’s edge, and men and women in fox and rabbit masks carry trays of drinks around. Everyone has masks on, but their swimsuits leave little else to the imagination. A woman in a rabbit mask wearing a tight one-piece s
