To stand at the side of an elemental as their familiar is a gift given to few familiars. Yet here I stand with my thirteenth-Larkspur, child of the earth. I do not want this charge, for all my previous have ended in deaths I could not prevent. I am not sure my heart can take another loss of one bonded with me. Larkspur's strength and heart call to me as only one other elemental's had, and I cannot deny the need to protect her, and to shield her from...