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.