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......~††£ 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.            †~........
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......~††£ 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... #@#£††~...
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.........~ 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?           ..........
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....~††£#@                (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! #£††~.....
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.......~†† 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.            ††~.......
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