If they weren't going to use their powers, then why would they do it at all? [Having a secure job and housing and food on the table as necessities is a bit foreign to her, understand.]

I can talk to plants. [She says very matter-of-factly.] There's a common place, I guess you could say, for all plants and their spirits [...kind of? Ugh, trying to explain it is so confusing...] that I used to be able to get to. But it's like it doesn't even exist here. There's just nothing.