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.