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.