Alma was disappointed that there wasn't much past the meadow, but a town would at least have some people in it that could tell them where they were.  But the boys words worried him.  There was only five people in the meadow, so that meant that at most there was four in the town, a town could hold a few hundred people, but if there was four or less people there something must be wrong.  Then the elemental started interrogating the kid, and Alma knew he was scared half to death.  Wether he knew it or not, his body would know that she was a elemental, and everyone of his instincts would be telling him to run.  So Alma realized he needed to intervene.  "Hey, kid," Alma said in the lowest nicest tone he could muster. "How many people are in the town?  Two, three?" Then Alma thought of a frightening thought. "Or is it completely empty, like everyone just disappeared all at once just before you got to the town.  Just tell us, we won't get mad."  Alma shifted his head towards the elemental.  "Right. We can all be friends, my guess is he's just like us, not much idea where he is, he's just been here a bit longer.  So he probably knows how to get to town, since he seems to have been there already. There will be food and water, and likely supplies we could use to find were we are." Shifting his gaze back towards the kid he bent down till he was eye level with him.  "Do you think you can lead us there?  Then there will be more people in the town than the meadow. That should make it less creepy, right?" Alma gave his nicest, most trustworthy smile.