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.