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.