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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 $††~^.....
......^~†† the industrial buildings, the urban ††~^......
.......^~† maze, protective walls, jungle †~^.......
........^~ network... ~^........
.........^ ^.........
.......... the tracks leave the ground, which is ..........
.......... needed for other purposes. you are ..........
.......... carried gently, curving upwards until ..........
.........^ you're moving upward along the wall of ^.........
........^~ a building. it's made of slabby stone, ~^........
.......^~† with great glassless window holes †~^.......
......^~†† looking out the way you came. it is ††~^......
.....^~††$ pitch black inside. $††~^.....
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