This is probably why they say, when you play with fire to be careful for you could get burned. Yes with flying colors. The price I paid though in my mind was a heavy one. I killed a beautiful, living creature. That magnificent silver maple that stood in my front yard.
Most silvers only make it to fifty years if they are lucky.
Old Moll was over two hundred, and my actions stopped her life force. Something I still haven't gotten over to this day. This is where the guidance of someone who had much more experience calling storms would have been more than appreciated. But as many pagans know, a teacher is not always easy to find. And although I have had help over the years, it is not a subsitution for the knowledge that one can only get with the hands on experience of a teacher.