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.