20 Connell watched the Elementals talk across the glen. It was hard to believe that those two small women contained the power of Mother Earth. Earthquakes and summer storms… He regretted his snap judgment of Logan when she admitted feeling a connection to the bit of scrap metal they found. The fragment had to be from a weapon of some kind. Glancing up at the tree trunk where the piece had been lodged, he counted the meters. At least three. He stepped up to the tree and turned his back to it, raising his hands over his head as if holding a sword or a spear. He was close to the right height. In his mind, he pictured the assailant holding the weapon above his head to strike down at Sammy. They would have had to hit the trunk behind him pretty hard to get that shard stuck in the bark. That

