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††~^,,,,,, TRAIN DREAM ,,,,,,^~††
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###&††~^,, (SITUATION) ,,^~††##
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#&††~^,,,, 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. ,,,,^~††
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###&††~^,, ALONG THE SPAN OF THE CLEARING LAY TWO ,,^~††##
####&††~^, PARALLEL SILVERY LINES, DARK HARD ,^~††###
###&††~^,, METAL. SOMEHOW YOU CAN SEE HOW HEAVY ,,^~††##
##&††~^,,, THEY ARE. ,,,^~††#
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&††~^,,,,, THEY EMIT A HIGH PITCHED WHINE... ,,,,,^~††&
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##&††~^,,, (SITUATION) ,,,^~††#
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####&††~^, 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? ,,,,^~††
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#&††~^,,,, (SITUATION) ,,,,^~††
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###&††~^,, 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. ,,,,,^~††&
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