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.