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.