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.