Such a peculiar child. He did not think he had ever met one quite like her. It made him worry for her, and yet he thought if there was ever a girl he had met who could care for herself, she could do it.
"Indeed you are, and that's all you have to be. I was never a little boy, so I've always just been an Earth Elemental."
It was a fact he'd never regretted. For so long he had never even known he could be a man, let alone a boy.