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.