You keep soaking because wet looks like ready.

Bay A becomes a swamp with excellent posture, then a swamp with wilt, which is a trick that makes nervous people water more. You do not get that far. Oskar takes the hose. Imani takes the tray notes. Roots that wanted oxygen sit in a bath.

The storm still comes. LEDs can still light a plant that is drowning. Light does not breathe for a root.

You live. The greens in A do not, not as food. Other bays limp. You will eat from a can and from Bay C if Bay C forgives you. Hearth smells like wet socks. Lina does not mop. Lina looks at the floor as if the floor has disappointed Mars.

Oskar: “Pore space is a lung for roots. You filled the lung.”

You write the log. You do not draw a frowny tomato. You do not deserve a mascot today.

THE END

What you learned: overwatering fills the air pores roots need. Plants can wilt in a swamp, and the wilt can fool you into watering again. Sensors beat moods. Storms are photon problems; hoses are not a shield.