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.