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.