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.