That what we're looking for?

Probably.

It's less than a person's height above the nearest ground, so they don't have to worry about capturing it from midair. Less fortunately, the real-world dust and pebbles haven't always caught up to where the elemental moved their spirit world counterparts. They have to constantly check both the practitioner and normal sight on the way over to avoid getting pelted with inconveniences that may or may not physically exist.

Also gravity decides to change directions on them again. 

The elemental didn't react when Lalwen spotted it. It does when they hit the jolt. It starts whiffling toward them.

A thin string of the water used for flying starts looping around it and tracing out symbols. It stops in place, but then gravity starts shifting intensity as well as direction both inside and outside the circle.

That going to be a problem?

Depends if it goes further...trying to stop it...there. They land by staying stationary while down stabilizes around them.

Help me get it locked down tight enough to take orders?

They do that.

Proof of concept, I guess. We still don't know the Valar's response time, but we should be able to split up three ways now. Four once we bind something else.

The more we catch the better, but remember we're prioritizing strength over numbers here.

And they can now walk along the more-cooperative cliff face looking for more elementals.

Amber is the least useful on her own, so she sticks with Lalwen until the second gravity spirit gets caught. Once they're equipped well enough that all four can fly if gravity decides to burble again, they can cover one third more ground.

After some progress in the hunt, Now we know right away didn't mean right away. How far should we push this?

Retreat, hide for a while, see if a Vala shows up at any point to check things out?

If we can hide from them, then good idea.

Maybe hide separately? If they find one of us they can stall while the other three keep going.

Couldn't hide from Oromë, no reason why not from the rest.

Lying low it is then. We can give it long enough that they're more likely to arrive while we're hidden than not...

Yep.

So they all take cover and commence waiting.

And eventually - to ordinary sight it looks like a blazing meteor, to the practitioner sight like Melian a hundredfold - 

That's Varda, Findekáno says.

Varda is almost overwhelming just to look at.

She's one of the ones it's not impossible to hide from, right? Amber shrinks further into her crevice.

It is not.

The area becomes as she approaches, as bright as Valinor at the Mingling. She pauses and stands quite still. Is there anyone present? This area is dangerous.

She relaxes but, of course, doesn't answer Varda.

Who waits.

Is there anyone present? This area is dangerous.

No comment.

Is there anyone present? Reveal yourselves. This area is dangerous and forbidden.

This can't be anything like the longest a Vala has stood repeating the same sentence, but it still sounds like a broken record.

And she frowns, and closes her eyes, and then drifts - the gravity does not appear to affect her at all - in Amber's direction.