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.