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.
She can't take everybody. She will take the first-batch mage from Calado, who may elect to return to Calado as an adult if they want, and she will test students from Calado in batch three when the next northern spring's babies turn two.
They survive, after a fashion; Ices can do stasis.
Maurabel gets a shadow-walk ride there with her translator Ice to try to bring them out of it. She warns everyone beforehand that sometimes this does not work and patients just die instead and this is incompatible with Shine healing. Would anyone rather leave their stasised relative in stasis until the field of magic has maybe advanced or do they want her to undo it now as best she can, ~90% odds per?
There's a lot of people here and they know more about medicine than humans do but her world's been studying magic intensively with a lot of collaboration for about six local years and still (she checked, she gets a news bulletin every time she goes to clear more purchased elementals and would have heard) hasn't improved on what Maurabel learned in school.
Do they even know where the offending Ice is now? Anyway, the policy is for someone better socialized to go introduce the Ice to concepts like "just fly away if you meet drunk four year olds who have welding torches for some reason".
Her Ice translator has been accounted for in Anitam at the time of the incident and they are going to leave now. They Shadow-walk home.
Attacking somebody with welding torches is not innocent. She is sorry he's dead too but let's be clear.
Elementals are immortal but that doesn't mean you can't hold one down and torture it. Is there by any chance a security camera at the rink?
Well. Maybe they'll find the Ice and maybe they won't. At any rate she advises not attacking elementals.
The free(ish) elementals on her home world find some more high-profile targets. They take all their elementals.