Alice- Vine

Then I saw a glimmer of hope – a manner by which they might eventually be freed without that, although how long it would take was impossible to say. A green shoot, some kind of questing vine, had sprouted from the icy ground at my feet. It had already penetrated several inches into the ice prison and its direction seemed to be towards Alice.

How long had it taken it to penetrate into the ice that far?

I looked closely and could see a fine web of cracks at the point where it entered the wall of ice.

Alice was an earth witch who served Pan, the Old God who ruled Nature. Slow the process might be, but her magic was already working to free her.

Wulf's Bane Chapter 28