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.