"I'm always careful!" Minako sing-songed, vanishing further into the branches. Her confidence soared––she couldn't figure out mysteries or use her brain to figure out a way home, but she could at least climb trees with the best and bravest of them!

At least, with the bravest. 'Best' might not have been the most accurate. She gripped another limb and shimmied up to it; would this have been easier transformed? Maybe she could just jump. But something Rei had said had been resonating in her head, and she leaned back down; she could just make out the shine off of Rei's dark hair in the near-darkness. "... Death trees?"