Spell work was not exactly her talent, but she knew enough for the work she did that Nora was able to concentrate for a moment, focusing her energy, she pulled up an image in her mind. Instead of a supernatural fight, the people around them started to see something more like a bar brawl, one that Mr. Chen had started. Some patrons had already pulled out their phones though, which added to the issue at hand. Now that they just saw a bar fight, they were still recording.<br/><br/>"Knocking him out sounds like the best option to me," Nora said, continuing to think about controlling the situation. Now that it was just a fight, the people around them were content to watch, none were running in fear, but their phones would capture images their minds could not. Luckily, most technologies seemed particularly unfond of magic, so Nora channeled that dissonance and lifted her right hand.<br/><br/>Her fingers slid together to make a snap and as the sound from it left her hand, it seemed to reverberate through the room. All the small electronics around them, whether held out to record or not, suddenly suffered some kind of internal hardware failure. Nora hoped most of the people in this room either had the money to replace them or some kind of insurance.<br/><br/>Her attention was drawn back to the fight when the monster spoke directly to her. She arched a brow at the creature, because it surely thought it was spewing some poison at her, the way it spoke. Energy began to build inside her and she was just about ready to channel some of it at the beast when Pace beat her to it. Her eyes were no longer on the creature, they were on the expression that had crossed Pace's face when the thing threatened her. Perhaps he just did not like the obscenities, but she got the sense there was something more to it, something about the threat being made directly at<i>her.<br/>
</i><br/>"Let's shift the narrative then..." Nora said, focusing her mind on altering the glamor ever so slightly. It required editing what the people around them thought they had seen, rather than what they currently saw. Instead of two strangers engaging with Mr. Chen, she shifted it so that it looked like Mr. Chen had known them, he had invited them, but then he got a bit too drunk and Pace had to see to it he did not make a fool of himself. "That...That should do it. We can take him out of here, back to the bar?"<br/><br/>The tether was there, so she assumed that was where Pace was the most powerful. "Thoughts on the stone? If the thing inside him is connected to it, I could probably scry for it. I'm shit at binding magic though, so I can't help you there, but...I could call a friend.  A couple friends actually." Sera or Lane could do the binding, though she was certain either of the women would go about the process differently. Lane might be able to use whatever god-like power she had tapped into to rip the thing out of Mr. Chen and Sera...well, Sera was the most well-rounded of the three of them.<br/><br/>"You can tell me the whole story later, during pillow talk." She confirmed, shrugging her shoulders. She wasn't entirely sure they would make it that far, but at least the thing had not managed to get many hits in.