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.