Nita kept fighting for air, crushing soil with her fingers.

"The vine-" she managed, after what felt like minutes of being blinded inside her own mind.

"The vine's killing the tree. All the tree is- is afraid...!"

She couldn't make herself look up again, though she did try.

"I got- I got nothing from her," and here she managed to gesture upward in a vague sense. Hopefully process of elimination made it obvious whom she meant.