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Aruna looks back down at the woman's shoes and sees that they are in fact smoking. She snaps her eyes down to her own feet and finds that they and also in the early stages of being eaten away. 
"What the hell?"
The plants seem to be making a juice that dissolves their shoes as they walked. Aruna jumps up, spreads her wings and glides up to a tree branch.