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.