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.