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They appear in midair, visible out of a few thirtieth-floor apartments.
One starts to fall. The other catches her by the arm, flings out - wing-shapes of light - and slows her, spiraling down until they're at street level.
maurabel and penumbra go on an adventure
Later that day someone comes by with a docilely following Glass and Stone and says she might want to trade the Stone for an Ice or a Water if they've got one.
Some people might get hurt trying to steal the salt but the smart ones will wonder how they got the salt in the first place unmolested and conclude there's probably something to be wary of. Even if (or maybe especially because) they can't see it.
Nope! Is there something other than an elemental she might want, they could perhaps arrange various spices and fabrics and dyes and fancy foreign glassware.
She leaves.
Most mages, it turns out, are not willing to straight-up sell their elementals, till a hunter comes by with a bunch recently caught. Do they want one? He's got a Lightning and two Air and a Shine and a Fire/Stone!
All of them? Wow. He's not sure they have that much but he counts it up and names a figure. They'll need to get the salt weighed at a formal scale.
Salt's nice and generic but he'd like some diversity in case some hybrid turns out to be a salt elemental and the market craters, ha ha, will they still be here and have seashells next time he comes back from a hunting trip?
And they take the five necklaces. When he's gone - "uh, anything we can get you guys while we wait on the mage?"
...these people have popcorn, gummy candies, lollipops, and army meal bars. They set them down near the elementals in case the elementals would like any.