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.