<div align="center">(https://i.imgur.com/doiZzd4.jpg?2)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 15pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>Year One<br/>The Time of Growth</strong></span></span></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><em>You have made a very important choice.<br/><br/>The Wise Old Elephant watches with happy old eyes as the playful spirits experiment with their new affinities. <br/><br/>The element comes, in small amounts, at your command. You can control, to a slight extent, what is already there. It is a start. But of what?<br/></em></span></span><br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/KnfrIGL.jpg)</div><strong>Wise Old Elephant</strong>(She/Her)<br/><strong>Time:</strong><em>Year 1, Time of Growth</em><br/><strong>Tags:</strong><em>All Happy Little Spirits!</em><br/><strong>Actions:</strong><em>Questioning!</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>"You have done so well my little friends." </strong>The elephant says the next morning, her voice sounding particularly weary, but joyful nonetheless.<strong>"I am so proud of all of you."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"And you can see now, you may all look like spirits, you may all believe you feel the same joy, but you are very different."</strong>The elephant's trunk points to one of you, a spirit who sneezes as their whose body has become more resembling the flame that they have embraced than the happy blue spirit the rest of you still are! And then to another, the only one who has chosen the earth. Yes, there are differences, important differences. But are there? All different? What a strange thing to say. At once so absurd and yet so obvious. Of course you're different! Wait. No you're not! You're happy spirits! Happy spirits are all the same! Spirits and happy! And yet ....<br/><br/><strong>"You must change things."</strong>The elephant says, and before any alarm can be felt she adds gently.<strong>"Just a little. If only to show yourself that you can. Think of your element, and how you might like to see the island a little different."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"And after you do that, come and find the herd. I think my grandbabies would like to see what you have done. And I must go see them. When you return, I must ask one more thing."</strong>The elephant pauses for a moment, as if wondering if the time is right yet, and then makes her decision.<strong>"Tell my children your name."</strong><br/><br/>A name? Do you have a name? Aren't you all just Happy? But no, as you think of it, you realize, you are not just one of many. You are you. But who is you? You will have to think about that. Think about it as you call to the wind, the earth, the fire, the air to make a little happy spirit mark on the world.<br/><br/>You will have time to think on this. The days will pass into weeks, the rains come more heavily now, bringing growth and warmth back to the island. The days are getting longer now, the sun shines brighter. The spirits are starting to make their marks, not just on the land, but on themselves.<br/><br/>Are you ready?<br/><br/><hr/><br/><em>So your task is <br/><br/>- Describe your spirit using their new domain to make a small, at least semi-permanent change to the island or a feature of it. This can include plants and animals if you connect it to your element! If you pick a physical feature, say where that feature is on the map! The only limit here is you may not alter the favorite place of a fellow spirit without their OOC permission! <br/><br/>- Next, you must choose a name, also please choose your spirits pronouns if you haven't already! Unlike other options, you may change this at any time later! Describe yourself introducing yourself with your new name to the elephant herd!</em><br/>