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forth. Once it builds up enough momentum, the pacifier rolls back into the baby’s open mouth. Immediately, the breeze stops and the baby settles back into a deep sleep.
     
    The lights snapped on.
    “My goodness, that is early,” Lord Fairship said.
    “It’s your duty to report early elemental activity, Fair One.”
    Pennie swallowed. “It could have been the natural wind that moved the pacifier.”
    “The window was closed, Fair One penn 1 ,” Lord Fairship pointed out. “Lady Fairship is right. Why didn’t you report this?”
    Pennie started to argue again, but they’d just seen into her deep memory cortex. There was no use lying. “I should have. Doesn’t it make sense, though, that by using their elements early, the clients can better protect themselves?”
    Lord Fairship looked disappointed. “Any client that becomes aware of his or her element before they turn eighteen years old is a direct target for Mother Nature. So in fact, by not reporting her, you are putting your client in more danger.”
    “ Were, ” Lady Fairship said. “You’re terminated.”
    “ What ?” Pennie stood.
    “I’m afraid Lady Fairship is correct,” Lord Fairship agreed. “You’ve failed your rookie assignment and there are no second chances. Your client will be scheduled for an immediate erase.”
    Pennie stepped back, hitting her tiny heel against the leg of the chair. “An erase?”
    “Standard procedure.” Lady Fairship raised her eyebrow. “Frankly, it should have been done when the client was still a baby. It’s a wonder that she’s made it this far without being discovered. How long has it been, exactly?” she asked the Higher-Up.
    “She’s known she possesses the Wind element for twelve and a half years, Lady Fairship.”
    “Dreadful. As I keep saying,” she mumbled to Lord Fairship, “some of these Fair Ones cannot be trusted.”
    “Not now,” Lord Fairship warned her quietly.
    “Your Fairships.” Pennie swallowed the lump in her throat. “My client has only used her element a few times. So I wouldn’t say she possesses it, exactly. Her aim isn’t always perfect, if you know what I mean.” Pennie laughed nervously.
    No one else did.
    “It is indeed unfortunate that in a situation like this erasing a client’s existence is our only option.” Lord Fairship clasped his hands. “But you said it yourself; Earth is a dangerous place for the elemental teen. As a thirteen-year-old, your client still has five more years until she no longer requires a Fair One to protect her.”
    “She’ll be safe with me, your Fairship. I promise.”
    Lord Fairship sat back. “We do not make these decisions lightly. However, we must think of the entire human race first. Your client has powers we need and Mother Nature wants. Should she capture your client, she will absorb her—in this case—wind power and use it against us. Mother Nature has scouts searching day and night for elemental teens like your client and the closer they get to eighteen, the brighter they appear on her radar.” He leaned forward. “ penn 1, I think you know that bringing her here for us to immediately erase is a much kinder option that what Mother Nature would do to her.”
    Pennie looked away. Lord Fairship was right. Stories of what Mother Nature did to the elemental teens were horrific. Absorbing their power was slow and torturous, and no one ever heard from them again. Still, Pennie thought, Tenley Tylwyth had only five more years until she would be officially trained and enlisted in the Elemental Bureau of Fair Force. Five more years! And there was another reason she couldn’t let Tenley get erased.
    “What about Mrs. Tylwyth?” she asked. “If you take Tenley from her, she’ll be devastated.”
    “You know very well that your client will never even have existed for her mother,” Lady Fairship said. “Every human who has ever been associated with any client we’ve had to erase is stripped of all memory of them.” She