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.