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.