The trees seem well enough. It could be that the climate is more hospitable at different times of the year. [So most of the plants would have died off with the seasons. ] If these are a type of weed, they should be hardy.

[That was what bramble normally meant didn't it? A weed with thorns. She hoped that was the case here as well. Though logic didn't seem to mean much here, very little over the past few weeks had made sense. Naoto took a breath, bracing herself as she started to walk again.

Only to pause as she looked into the distance.]

Why is that one tree so much larger than the others?