I always love it when Anne does the intro. That always puts me in a good mood, and that carried over to the story.
I probably would not have enjoyed the story so much if it weren't for her fascinating and well-planned intro.
The story was nice, but I want to hear more about this girl who can only really live in dreams. I don't care about Rick. I want to follow her to Richmond and see how she does there.
Having lived for a hundred years (just a guess, based on Disney's version of the fairy tale) only in dreams she finds it very hard to cope with the real waking world. It's not just the spatial relations, it's the human relations and interactions. When you've been experiencing the world through other people's dreams, you're not experiencing it yourself, but getting a tainted second-hand experience from them. What you experience is clouded by their interpretation of it. So no wonder everything is not as she imagined it, she didn't imagine it. Other people did for her.
(Well, she didn't imagine it, others did for her and therefore her expectations were based on the tainted experience that she had so far had. But it's easier to say it the other way.)
This fascinates me, since I am very aware of how subjective one's experiences of the world are, and hence how we form opinions. This would eb a remarkable chance to do a very intricate investigation in how we perceive the world.
I want to read that story.
Also, 150 square feet is a lot of space. A real lot of space. You don't just lose that much space, even when subdividing apartments. If that was the size of the walled-off room.... well, she was at least accommodated in spacious quarters.