Black outline drawing of four triangle element symbols on white, labelled Air, Fire, Water and Earth, shown as a flash design sheet.

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Four element symbols: air, fire, water, earth

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The image shows four triangular element symbols arranged in a two by two grid on a plain white background, each with a printed label above or below it. Air and Earth use a horizontal bar across the triangle, while Fire and Water are plain outlined triangles, with Fire pointing upwards and Water pointing downwards. The linework is uniform black outline with no shading, and the composition is simple and evenly spaced.

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Ada Pryce kept her kiln door chalked with four little triangles, and nobody in Hadley Bridge was allowed to wipe them off. Her husband had painted them on the day the bakery burned down across the lane, and she said the fire was the only honest thing that had ever happened on that street. I was twelve that summer and paid a shilling a week to turn the wheel while she trimmed mugs.

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The signs meant nothing to the parish. Vicar Hollis thought they were Masonic and said so over the tea urn. Ada only tapped each one with a wet thumb before she opened the vent. Air, she said, was the flat-bottomed one with the bar, because it needed somewhere to sit. Water pointed down because it always went where it was let. Earth was the bar and the point together, and fire was the plain upward triangle, always wanting out of its own shape.

In August a shelf cracked in the kiln and the firing went wrong. Ada sat on an upturned bucket with her hands tucked in her apron and would not let me near the door. Sometime after dark she got up, took a stub of chalk from her pocket, and drew a fifth mark beside the others: a small circle with nothing inside it. When I asked what it was, she said it was the part you could not fire, and then she handed me the wheel and told me to start again from the clay.

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