I did see what looked like clouds a few meters over the elemental, but the rain they were producing wasn’t nearly enough to extinguish the flames. D...ciding to leave the elemental to it, I looked around the room until I saw the earth elemental.It was not doing well. There were arrows sticking out all over the place and the stone that made up its body was chipped as well. One leg was definitely longer than the other, causing the elemental to have an uneven stride, slowing it down quite a bit. I. Sure enough, like clockwork, her folks drove out at the expected time in aMercedes, the metal gate closing behind them. After about ten minutes, I got outof my vehicle and made my way to the alley beside the house.Scaling the wall was easy enough, and I made it over with my rugsack. Like thehouses belonging to most families in the neighborhood, getting into the building itselfwould not be a problem once you were in the compound as this was a good residentialarea and nobody really locked their. Who knows but it's not a waste of time." I thought nothing would come of it but Uncle Jeff called the following week and told my Mom he had some work coming up for a big department store and could I maybe "Audition" for the job? Well I was thrilled as you might guess. My mom was strangely underwhelmed at the prospects of this opportunity. I didn't know why at the time but I later found out. So my Mom took me down to Uncle Jeff's studio the following saturday and I guess the job. "He insisted on coming to my house, so I told him to be there on Saturday night when my parents were going across town to a party likely to last into the wee hours.My parents had been gone for an hour Saturday night when the doorbell rang. I had forgotten how big and handsome Jim was. As soon as I closed the door behind him, he sneered at me and threw a big manilla envelope on the floor in front of me."Just in case you thought I was bluffing," he said.I looked at the first picture. There I was,.