Sometimes you had to re-pot a plant, and there was no way around it -- you'd dig it out, and you'd find the roots cramped and circling, growing in the shape of what they couldn't escape. Utena listened, as Anthy explained, because Anthy so seldom spoke from her heart.

Anthy took her hand, and showed her how to coax and break roots out of their old patterns, how to leave a world behind, and grow again.