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.