With a wide grin, he pulls a staff seemingly from nowhere- it's got a spiraling shaft and is topped with carvings of three faces melded together at the edges, one laughing, one crying, and one screaming. A soft red light gathers at its tip, and then the charge is loosed at Yufei.

It's disorienting and easy all at once, like turning head over heels while effortlessly changing a pair of socks. In the blink of an eye and the passing of a moment's thought, Yufei is painlessly turned from man to bird, specifically a peregrine falcon, though the mind within is left the same.