A groundskeepers work was never done when it came to such a large span of territory, dawn to dusk wasn't enough time to tend to everything that needed her attention. Adelina often spent time well into the night tending to the earth she had been given responsibility of. She had only been in this city for about a month and easily found the work of groundskeeper over Hyde Place for it seemed there weren't any other elementals to do it, at least none that had stepped forward to the owner. The sun was just beginning to set, the remaining rays turning the sky above brilliant hues of blue, orange, pink, and purple, casting long shadows along the ground and slowly seeping the warmth from the air. Adelina was grateful she remembered a jacket this time as goose bumps rose along the flesh of her arms, donning the blue jean material over her blue dress, her black lace-up boots stepping with delicate grace along the small dirt path through the park.

With summer here schools were out and children ran amuck throughout the park at all hours of the day; Adelina was discovering she rather disliked children with how they ran through life disregarding everything they came in contact with, uncaring of trampling through the garden beds, ripping branches from the trees, and plowing down animal homes. For all that the world gave them and all that the earth provided to the very air that the breathed, they were oblivious ungrateful little devils. A soft sigh escaped Adelina's lips as she crouched down on the path, her icy blue eyes inspecting a squashed ant hill, the small insects still scuttling around like mad trying to figure out what happened with some carrying their dead brethren around aimlessly. Her fingers extended, gracing the loose earth where the anthill should be, careful not to bother the ants zigzagging around, and slowly the earth began to churn beneath her hand, reforming itself into the home it had been. Adelina moved on after seeing to it that the ants had started to find their home intact again and began dutifully filing in. They were insects and for the most part dumber than a brick outside of basic instincts but they deserved as much care and respect as any other creature on the earth.

Her last stop for the night, as it was every night since it was her favorite place to be, was the garden area. Adelina had requested an addition to their "Eden" which the owner had obliged this morning, a new large strip of dark soil encircling a small fountain and stone bench, bare wooden trellises stuck at regular intervals like skeletons. A smile pulled at her pink lips, hardly able to contain the joy she felt every time she was greeted with a new patch to work on. It was much different than her regular duties of mending broken branches and eroded pathways. It was a pure freedom for her power, a great release of energy that was like a natural high for her. As she lowered herself to the ground the smell of fresh churned soil tickled her nose, causing her body to feel like it was being pulled like a magnet to the earth. Her delicate fingers splayed across the dark matter, feeling every little mineral in the earth jump and vibrate with energy, responding to her lead as she coaxed everything to life. A multitude of new greenery and flowers had been planted, simple seedlings hidden within the ground which leapt to life under Adelina's guidance. It was more a process of forcing the earth's minerals into the plant life, making it grow at a rapid pace until seed turned to sprout and ever slowly onward. The soil around Adelina began to shift as each one peeked to the surface then reached up for the sky, twisting and turning as it was guided in its growth. What would have taken weeks for this area to be lush and sprouting colorful blooms of flowers and shady shrubs would take Adelina only a couple minutes to accomplish.