It's... some sort of sentient, I think.

[It's hard to say just how alive it is with the limited knowledge they have, but...]

Enough that it can make us go particular directions, or get us separated or lost.

[Which, yeah, brings them to the issue of point B.]

That's probably why it's so hard to find our way back. It...doesn't really want us to leave yet. [Ominous.]