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.