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.