Now that everyone's attention was off of them, Naoko turned her camera off then landed her mecha on a branch. The platform lowered her down onto the branch and she dropped down onto one knee as soon as she got off the platform. The moment her bare hands came into contact with the branch, she gasped.
It was as she thought. What she felt in the gemstone the last time was also flowing through nature itself.
She closed her eyes, focused on that familiar sensation, and tried to picture it in her mind. Threads of energy coursed through the entire tree and gathered into a mass at various spots on the tree in differing amounts. If she put a little more effort into it, she could even use the threads to picture the outline of the tree.