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.