She gets the barrier up anyway, not knowing if he'll come after her yet or not.

And then just sits there for a long moment, breathing flatly as she tries to push away the mental exhaustion that came with the barrier. Once she's back on her paws, she pads to the border of the shielded field, visible because the barrier glows faintly, and peers out at her attacker. Falling was bad enough, and then to get grabbed by whatever you landed on...

Rude. But he also seems to be a powerful mage, to create icicles that seemed to be quite manifest but still not hurt him. That makes her curious, the kind of curiosity that is paired with caution: Find out more about a possible danger.

The main question is, of course, if he's a salaried mage or not. But if he were protecting the school area, he wouldn't be ignoring her now, would he? She nervously glances around. Is this a trap? She doesn't normally have to worry those kind of worries alone, Ivokat and Leo in her ear for this kind of questions. But they aren't here. That doesn't usually bother her this much, but when she's in trouble...

She continues watching the guy.