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.