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.