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.