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.