[ Like the other trees in the courtyard, it is a sad, warped thing. There's a kind of elegance to the twist of the tree's lowest branches—as if lovingly trained to that position by some expert hand. But past that point, they've gone utterly wild, too thick in places and dying out entirely in others.

There doesn't seem to be any actual kudzu growing around its base, though—just the mounds around the courtyard's borders. ]