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.