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.