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.