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.