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.