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.