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..---††¤## train dream ##¤††---..
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....---†¤# ^^^ #¤†---....
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.--^¤##### (situation) #####¤^--.
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....--†¤## 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... ####¤†^--.
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.--^†¤#### (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. #####¤†^--
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.....-^†## 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? #†--......
.--^†¤#### ####¤†^--.
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.--^†¤#### (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. ####¤†^--.
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