I looked around. This barren wasteland was my home?

Spati offered me a glowing orb. "Take it" he said.

I looked at it, afraid of what I would find. I steeled myself and took it. All at once, I remembered everything, the disaster, and the portal--so like the one I'd come through to get here--that I'd jumped through to escape at the last moment.

I must have fallen over, because, when I opened my eyes, I was staring up at Spati and Moonsong. "Okay, I remembered..." I said. "...but how does this help figure out my element? I didn't have any powers before."