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.