train dream                
     
                                       
                                         
                                         
                                          
                (situation)               
                                          
 you  find  yourself   in  a   rift  -  a 
  clearing, narrow but immeasurably long. 
 to your sides are  walls  made of trees, 
 thick and ready to swallow  you. the sun 
 is  nowhere to be seen,  but  nontheless 
 it is very bright  - the air feels light 
            blue, almost white.           
                                          
 along  the span of the clearing lay  two 
    parallel silvery lines, dark hard     
 metal. somehow  you can  see  how  heavy 
                they are.                 
                                          
 they   emit  a   high  pitched  whine... 
                                          
                                         
                                     
                                         
                                          
                (situation)               
                                          
 youre  at  the   train station,   on   a 
 catwalk  above the rails. your train  is 
 late, or  you  are  late  to the  train. 
 it's a summer  afternoon and the station 
 is  busy,  full  of  relaxed confidence. 
                                          
 you're in  high  spirits, although a bit 
 stressed about  the time,  while  moving 
 up  the  stairs  to your  platform.  the 
 station  is  in   several  levels,   all 
     placed within eachother by some      
    intelligent designer, and full of     
       stairs, elevators, shortcuts,      
 bazaars... you sight  your train through 
 some  glass  windows. it's... not  where 
           it's supposed to be?           
                                          
                                         
                                     
                                         
                                          
                (situation)               
                                          
 you're finally entering the  city. while 
 it is indeed  a  very  high  speed train 
 you're  traveling  in,  the  journey has 
 been  long.   but  it's  about  to  end! 
                                          
 society  is  growing denser around  you, 
 through the windows you see  first small 
 shacks,  built  of metal and stone, then 
 proper  houses with mortar to keep  them 
 together... who  in  turn  make way  for 
   the industrial buildings, the urban    
      maze, protective walls, jungle      
                network...                
                                          
 the tracks  leave  the ground, which  is 
 needed   for  other  purposes.  you  are 
   carried gently, curving upwards until  
 you're moving  upward along the  wall of 
 a building.  it's made  of slabby stone, 
    with great glassless window holes     
 looking  out  the way you  came.  it  is 
           pitch black inside.