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.