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.