"Uh huh."

He sprays her with weedkiller but leaves her otherwise alone.

"Ow!" she whines when he sprays her. "Don't do that, it hurts!"

"Then leave!"

"Don't put that stuff on me!"

He ignores her and goes back to work.

As long as he does not spray her again she will leave it at that.

Yeah he'll wait for the cops.

A Fire is working with the international thingamabob and gets tapped to help and meets her escort at the airport.

"Hi. She just settled down in someone's garden, just needs it explained that people don't always want an elemental living in their garden."

"And that people can own gardens, probably."

"The duchess of Dyucha County owns that garden."

"I don't think who in particular owns the garden will come up, just that owning gardens is a thing. Hell of a world to come into when somebody already owns all of it."

"Gardener said he suggested she check out the public botanical gardens."

"If somebody told you they owned all the air and light around here and you should go somewhere else if you wanted to breathe and look at things... not because they owned the land, because they owned the air and light..."

"If I were an elemental I'd go to the duchess and offer to occasionally magic the plants healthier in exchange for staying there, I bet she'd agree to that."

"The elemental might do that once I've explained, that's just where I'll have to start explaining, people owning places."

"Uh huh." They go to the estate.

"Will the Duchess want to give us permission before we go in to talk to the Wood-or-whatever -"

"We wrote her, we're allowed on the grounds."

"Mkay." In she goes to find the elemental. She has turned herself into a shrub sort of thing near a bunch of climbing flowers. "Hi - what are you -"

"I'm Leaf," says the elemental.

"- Wood and Earth?"

"Yeah."

"Well, hi, I'm Fire."

"Hi."

Escort watches grumpily.

And Fire explains to Leaf that people here have it so they can own places and plants and stuff, who knew, right.

"The gardener sprayed me with something and it hurt," says the Leaf, as she starts pulling herself up.

"- that's no good -" Fire turns to the escort.

"I can ask him." He does. "He sprayed the whole area with weed killer. You can't really hurt elementals anyway, right?"

"...you can't kill us. It can still hurt."

"He needs to be able to do his job."