Having frozen away the soldiers, Steel is incapacitated by the cold. Sapphire supervises the imprisoning of the now frozen shard of light and they all wait for Steel to recover. In the meantime there is a new arrival. Lead, another of the 127 elementals (if you count the unstable transuranics) has arrived to help and not before time. Steel determines that all of the books and pictures in the house must be burned and then he and Lead will attempt to freeze the problem out of Helen's bedroom. One of the books has a different idea, however, and uses another rhyme to set loose a hurricane in the house's kitchen.