Nita watches the vine burn with satisfaction.

(It's not typical of her in the least, but something about it had just been wrong. Maybe it was the hunger, or the way it had puppeteered Al'Amar.)

Aly's line, though, draws one last baffled look from her.

"'Fraid I haven't heard that one before."

She's from a time before Vine, Aly. Forgive her.

Meanwhile, getting this tree sorted and getting these two back to the city seems to have become someone's priority, and that someone is very firm.