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.