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.