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.