---
id: root-movement
startsIn: "[[root-chamber]]"
initialPhase: shifting
---

## shifting
The roots stir whenever your light touches them. Their movement is slow, but every opening in the room is narrower than it was a breath ago.

## listen-resolved
You put out the light and listen.

In darkness, the roots stop pretending to be wood. They creak like a house settling around a sleeping child, then draw back from the eastern opening.

## wrong-verb
The roots tighten against one another, dry fibers whispering overhead.

## failed
The roots drop like ropes. You force your way back to the flooded passage with bark dust in your mouth.
