Maybe? Probably not? I know that all plants are kind of alive, right? So that wouldn't be so difficult to imagine or accept.

[ It's hard to put a finger on what had been bothering her.

Maybe some of it had to do with the fact that being there made it all the more apparent about the people she wasn't experiencing it with, and the person she had encountered in the Listening Tree hadn't technically been her first choice of company.

Or maybe it had been something else entirely. After a moment she lets out an annoyed huff that is aimed more at herself than anything else before blurting out - ]

I just didn't really want to be alone with my thoughts.