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.