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.