The two trees had grown into each other .
Inosculation — the specific phenomenon the oldest Bleed Bark specimens produced when their trunks had stood close enough for long enough that the bark had met , pressed , and fused , two separate trees becoming one continuous architecture at the join . The fusion had done to the fissures what fusion did to everything it touched : widened them . The natural weeping channels of two ancient trunks meeting at the seam and opening into spaces that a single tree's fissures never reached — wide enough , at the join , to hold something the size of a person .
Team Noctis had found it before they had needed it .
