Samir lifted his head at the sound of Aneira's call. The bird sailed in from the east, moving faster than the clouds around it. From his high point on the mountain spires that made up the northernmost point of their world, he could see the ocean spilling out to the east and rich valleys and earth to the south. And to the west, the shrouds of smoke hid his vision. The elements that made up their world used to sleep in peace, but as he expected, the world woke him for a reason. In a life that lasted an eternity, he often slept the day to days away. Aneira landed on his outstretched wrist.

"So it's true isn't it? Something has changed." He sighed before running his hands along the feathers of his greatest friend. He gazed out at the landscape, his blue eyes calculating behind the small frames of his glasses. It had been too many years. But just what was it that changed? What brought him this unease? "Wind!" he called out, his voice thrown out to the very element he guarded and could feel coursing through his body. The wind responded in an instant.

Gales whipped around him, their whispers indecipherable to anyone but their elemental. Samir himself listened with a careful ear, but the voices screamed, all too rushed for him to follow. "Slow down. I can't-" He felt something shift down in the basest part of him. Samir's head whipped up as a screech sounded. A hoard of birds broke off from the wind's pattern, their dark bodies scattering around him with wings beating against his arms and inhuman screams.

Samir's control broke, leaving his body trembling under the strain of controlling an element that was as natural to him as his own flesh. The gales died in an instant, leaving eerie silence in their wake. "Impossible..." he whispered. His element wouldn't listen to him? Never, never in all the existence of wind had such a thing happened. Expression turning grim, he once more turned his eyes down to the continent. He needed to consult with the others and see if it happened to them too.

"Come, Aneira. It seems we have a journey ahead of us." With that, Samir jumped from his lofty dwelling and took to the skies with his familiar, heading first to the south where the element of earth awaited. He could not abide by unknown happening in his world, so even if they did not want to help him, he would gather the elements together for his own selfish pride.