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.