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.