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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.                 #&$††~^...
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.....^~††$ 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. $††~^.....
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...^~††$&# 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,      $††~^.....
......^~†† bazaars... you sight  your train through ††~^......
.......^~† some  glass  windows. it's... not  where †~^.......
........^~           it's supposed to be?           ~^........
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......^~†† you're  finally entering the city. while ††~^......
.....^~††$ 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 $††~^.....
......^~††   the industrial buildings, the urban    ††~^......
.......^~†      maze, protective walls, jungle      †~^.......
........^~                network...                ~^........
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.......... the  tracks leave  the  ground, which is ..........
.......... needed  for   other  purposes.  you  are ..........
..........  carried gently, curving upwards until   ..........
.........^ you're  moving upward  along the wall of ^.........
........^~ a building.  it's  made of slabby stone, ~^........
.......^~†     with great glassless window holes    †~^.......
......^~†† looking  out  the way you  came.  it  is ††~^......
.....^~††$           pitch black inside.            $††~^.....
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