The plants were alive, but they showed little outward motion or awareness to the two female intruders in the grove. Female, the plants knew, because they could smell their pheramones in the air, hormonal scents that not even a human nose could detect, or at least not realize. The women were not even in heat, yet, but the pollen floating through the air would slowly begin to change that. Long ago, before it was taboo, La Agujero Oculto was popular by tribal women who were young and curious about their sexuality. They knew that they would become aroused by lingering in the grove for too long, though they didn't know why. They assumed it was blessed by the gods, which was part of the legend behind La Agujero Oculto, but it was nature, not an otherworldly being, manipulating those women's bodies.<br/><br/>That same process was occurring in Cassandra and Amber, though it was covert and very slow acting.<br/><br/>The tentacle vines on the ground slowly writhed as the women stepped over them, and a few of them reached up to slither against the women's ankles. They were very slow, and not threatening, and could perhaps be conceived as a reaction to their stepping feet, but the tentacles were very much moving on their own volition.<br/><br/>They waited to act, waiting for the women to get closer to the heart of the grove.