Thank the user's users! He offers a hand for, now that he can see her clearly, Nozomi to take.

"Yeah, I noticed." He brushes at his hair awkwardly, finding leaf stuck in it, "One of those vines got me by the leg. Couldn't get to it in time."

Now having found Nozomi, he weighs up their options on what to do. "I wouldn't go the way I came. It's a wall of nothing but those vines and some other nasty looking plant-life. It's like whatever this distortion is doesn't want us to leave."