 Rooted separation of a graph

For a specified set $S$ of vertices, a rooted separation is a pair $(A,B)$ with $A\cup B=V(G)$, $S\subseteq A$, and no edges between $A\setminus B$ and $B\setminus A$. Its order is $|A\cap B|$. It avoids a branch set $C$ when $A\cap C=\varnothing$. A graph with vertex connectivity at least $|S|$ has no rooted separation of order below $|S|$ avoiding a nonempty branch set: both sides of such a separation would be nonempty after deleting its separator.