She was scraping goo from what seemed to be an enormous mat of thin vines, and putting a bit of it into a sample bottle.
Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green changed.
It's a thin, twine-like vine, studded with tiny barbs that dig into clothing and skin, much like a bramble.
They did him the favour of tying each other up with thin but tough vines.
What had been thin vines hanging from the top of the enclosing walls now became burgeoning lengths that dropped lower every day toward the valley floor.
Jenny watched, while Sherlock gathered small, thin vines and began weaving them into some sort of pattern.
It was tame, he realised, with its well-worn paths and tall trees spiralled with thin colourful vines.
Richard snipped off one of the longer curls, and tied a thin little vine around one end of it.
He had also cut several strands of tough, thin vine.
He ripped at his shirt for a pressure-bandage, tied it on with the thin vines scattered everywhere about.