[ After the dryad is done explaining all the choices laid out for them, there's not much she can do except look between the dryad and Lottie with a very clear sense of panic - eyes wide, lips pulled into a taut line. They try to help the new shardbearers by coming down here to collect them, and this is the thanks they get? ]

I mean, no way that's the only way out...

[ But the roots have entangled them in on all sides, almost like a bubble of a room. Not thinking, she curls her hand into a fist and knocks it hard against the roots behind them, even jolting with a little ow! after doing so, followed by a cut-off cough resulting from the continued exposure to the spores. ]

Um, uh, [ Said in a hurried tone, her hand coming back to cradle her face. ] What did it say? A memory, a sacrifice, or killing each other? Obviously we're not picking the last one!!

[ Because 1) it would be fucked up to do to Lottie, who's the closest person to a relatable girl friend that she's met since Horos (and who would probably never agree to it), and 2) she doesn't even know if she can genuinely take Lottie in a PVP anyway. So, the question remains: a memory, or a sacrifice? She looks to Lottie to see if she's leaning one way or the other. ]

What... what do you think it means by something "physical?"