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......:-\% train dream %\-:......
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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. ##@*%\-:..
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..:-\%*@## along the span of the clearing lay two ##@*%\-:..
...:-\%*@# parallel silvery lines, dark hard #@*%\-:...
....:-\%*@ metal. somehow you can see how heavy @*%\-:....
.....:-\%* they are. *%\-:.....
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.......:-\ they emit a high pitched whine... \-:.......
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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. #@*%\-:...
..:-\%*@## ##@*%\-:..
.:-\%*@### 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) %\-:......
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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! ###@*%\-:.
..:-\%*@## ##@*%\-:..
...:-\%*@# 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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