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.