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.