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.