"Uh huh. Makes the theory that their rate of appearance is based on local flesh-people population more plausible."

Snort. "Flesh people."

"No one has yet suggested a better term for 'Amentans and humans' as a category. 'Mortals', I suppose, but maybe someday that'll change."

Giggle. "Fires can make you stay young longer, Stones can make you stick around longer after you're old."

"Tempting, once we have somewhere to go."

"Working on it."

"We appreciate it very much."

Fire and Stone suggest to Airs and Waters they come into contact with that they could go to the moon and not encounter any private property there. Some of them accept. It will still take a while for a few halos to fill up the atmosphere.

The prospect sends moon real estate prices skyrocketing. (Anitam secured a bunch of it before the project got underway.)

When there is a very thin atmosphere, enough for people who don't constantly produce their own surroundings to be comfortable, a few Earths and Woods go and start tending plants on the moon.

Everyone is really excited about this as proof-of-concept!

They have to pretty actively maintain their plants for them to survive, but it's doable!

And with how many of them are expected to eventually exist, maybe lots will want to maintain plants on colony planets!

There just keep being more and more elementals. Rates of them running into people increase. There's just not that much wilderness.

Someone thinks it's funny to check what will happen if they turn a hose on the Fire in their outdoor bonfire site! Someone else sees a Adamant leaving the red district and shoots it! People start making lists online of elemental types, how to recognize them, and what things work to drive them off!

The Fire gets airborne and starts dropping fire on them! The Adamant is not harmed but wants to have a look at the gun and is very insistent about that.

People scream and run away! Some of them are badly burned! The Adamant can't have the gun he could kill someone with it.

The Fire stops when they scream. He thought they wanted to play with him.

"But I want to see how it did that!"

"I can get you a toy one. Don't touch me, you were just in the red district."

"Do toy ones work the same?"

"Pretty much. Would you step back."

"Why did you point it at me if you didn't want my attention?"

"I wanted you to go away, you were just in the red district!"

"You already told me I was just in the red district. I heard you. Is that how you tell people to go away, you fling fast things at them?"

"Uh huh."