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.