"Some little time, yes." He smiles at the pout. "But hardly enough time to make me an expert!"

He nods. "Not the trees themselves, specifically... but the Ents, the Tree-herders? They can be quite protective of their charges, and some of the trees in their care are very... awake. I would not wish to run afoul of one of their dark-hearted Huorns who hate folk who walk on two legs! But I was thinking of one of the trees here, which has a tendency to trap those who crawl through it's roots to the shrine at it's heart, and very deliberately so."