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.