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††~,,,,,,, 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. ,,~††%§@##
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@§%††~,,,, ALONG THE SPAN OF THE CLEARING LAY TWO ,,,,~††%§@
§%††~,,,,, PARALLEL SILVERY LINES, DARK HARD ,,,,,~††%§
%††~,,,,,, METAL. SOMEHOW YOU CAN SEE HOW HEAVY ,,,,,,~††%
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#@§%††~,,, 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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%††~,,,,,, 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! ,,,~††%§@#
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#@§%††~,,, 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... ,,,,,,,,~†
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%††~,,,,,, 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 ,,,,~††%§@
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