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#@%/=,,,,, TRAIN DREAM ,,,,,=/%@#
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@*//=,,,,, 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 ,,,=///%%#
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#@*=,,,,,, LATE, OR YOU ARE LATE TO THE TRAIN. ,,,,,,=*@#
###@%*/=,, IT'S A SUMMER AFTERNOON AND THE STATION ,,=/*%@###
###@%*/=,, IS BUSY, FULL OF RELAXED CONFIDENCE. ,,=/*%@###
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###@%*/=,, 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 ,,=/*%@###
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##%*=,,,,, 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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#@***//=,, 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 ,,=/*%@###
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