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.