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.