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.