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.