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.