Wyatt will accept a hug! And for the record, oocly, his call was what Zephyr heard.

With Okota's power imbued in the totem, it can't really be shielded or nullified. The options for preventing it from affecting anyone are:
1.) Put it where no one can get to it to touch it
2.) Destroy it, destroying that portion of Okota's power with it
3.) Okota says she can reabsorb its power, leaving it as nothing but an inert stone carving