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.