Oh. Oh, no! This was not good, not good at all. Dashing forward, Trance latched her hands down on the shoulder of the one trying to strangle Sam. "Stop it! Stop!" Trance said, a certain desperation in her voice. Even if she was able to get the shifter to turn it's attention to her, it would be enough. She couldn't die. It could lash into as much as it wanted, but if it focused too much on Sam, it was likely she'd end up having to see if her powers worked the same way here as they did in her universe.
And quite frankly, she didn't want to find out that they didn't and then have a corpse to deal with.