"I had to run away from a couple monsters," Jolie agrees sourly.

And then he yells, and she instinctively ducks, and wow she can hear the vines talking, complaining that they missed her, being hungry hungry hungry. "Oh my god," she says, exasperated more than afraid, crouched low on the ground with her arms over her head. "Leave me alone, I'm not food!"

The vines... retract a little?