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.