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.