Fire moved over Earth’s path hoping that Wind would find her soon. But Earth’s paths changed with Water’s path. Wind could not stand this pandem...nium, she lifted Water’s path and tried to see if her sisters were caught in it. but the path became too heavy and it began to slip threw her grasp. Rain began to fall over Fire’s path and smothered it. All was lost when Spirit became scared of being alone. She began to search for her sister Fire, but was stopped as Earth decided to break at Waters. Figured you might be though, standin’ out here in ‘plumb nearly’ all afternoon.’ ‘Plum-what?’ I asked. You mean this place has a name?’ ‘Naw, it’s a saying we have. Plumb-nearly. Plumb out of the county and nearly out of the state. It means way out in the boondocks.’ As she spoke, she finally stopped examining my torso and looked into my eyes. She was pretty, in a no-makeup, freshly scrubbed sort of way. And she was clearly a good bit older than I had taken her for, possibly in her early. "Sure," Emily agreed.The other two girls' faces lit up. I paid them each."Thank you!" Ashley said too exuberantly.The girls put the money away in their purses then I called Emily over to stand in front of the window."I'll take some pictures of your face first for headshots."I wasn't a photographer but I could take pictures and tell her how beautiful she looked the whole time and she wouldn't know any better."Beautiful, beautiful. Now turn your head and look out the window. Incredible."At the. Coach had taken up with Kasha shortly after he won the European Championship. Katerina had also competed, but at fifteen she had been too raw to make a real impression on the stodgy judges. At eighteen, however, and with much help from Coach, as well as sixty hours of practice each week, Katerina now felt ready. She felt good; perfect, in fact! Kasha was limbering up now. Between performances the men were doing minor jumps and spirals, trying to work the nerves out. It never helped, but they.