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.