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.