"Migi. Handle the defense."

Looks like a fancy mace

Noa gonna earn that Pernach ("earn" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there)

Noa casts BIG HAND!

Also for half a second there I was pretty sure Parley's Orjak (sorry Orjak, I've blanked on your name) was pulling that mace outta him Rose Bride style and I was here for it T_T

Should have turned his back while he was summoning it. She has to see what they’re doing to make a quick move against them, so her eyes are a weak point. She made herself immune to her skin burning, but what about a flash bang brighter than the sun right in her eyes? You can’t draw, magic glyphs or otherwise, on your own eyeballs! I bet her retina can be damaged just fine.

The presence of a glyph has caught Noa's attention. Hmmm.

As if Noa will just let you do that. Our heroes are way over their heads here...

Hopefully this is a trick

I'm suddenly expecting the glasses to come off and we see she has glyphs on her closed eyelids.

Something something I've only known Cvet since Chapter 70 and if anything happens to her--

Pernach? Nice. Surely having the authority of a colonel will help Parley.

Gimme that

Oh man, oh man! I can’t stand the tension. *bites lip* That said, I love Noa. Can’t help it. She’s so tragic. Can we have a spin-off, please?

Hopefully it will be pernach!

Uh oh.

Noa's eyes appear to be functioning. Go for the eyes, Rey, go for the eyes!

Hmm... She sees the glyph on the back of Cvet's hand. Could it be that she'll try to hijack it?

Patrick: HERE COMES THE GIANT FIST

This should be interesting considering the runes/sigils that both use.

Well, that's one way for them to figure out she's doing weirdness with glyphs!

I really wanna see behind her glasses. I bet she gave her sight to the rune too.

Yeah, probably a bad idea to use runes in front of her. It? Eh, I'll go with her. Honestly, they should switch from victory to reconnaissance. Try a variety of light-load attacks, gather the info on how she reacts, then retreat to plan. Alternatively, the host body probably requires a lot of calories. A blockade/siege type strategy might also work.

(Starts singing "A Grazing Mace")

I sees glyphseses. I wants it, yes...

Here's hoping it works on Silent Treatment!

Nice! My favorite kind of mace.

Noa and Parley both have the same type of nose

Looks more like a cotton swab, but maybe if you got it into her ear canal...

This is Not going to end well for Cvet...

I am so early today! Really enjoying this witchy symbol creepiness.

I'll be taking That

I’m worried about Parley with the amount of glyphs she probably has had tattooed. I bet this witch can manipulate those.

Glyph spotted! Assuming direct control. This is when the lasercows are going to have to step in to prevent anyone from getting hurt.

I can't help but wonder if the glyphs are at all related to Diego's script, like that on the old robots hearts, and that Kat has been using the ether all this time without realizing. Noa is like Kat gone down the wrong path, but with pure ether rather than tech. Now I'm wondering if Annie had really died in the ravine, would Kat have become her scary Ether form out of grief?

Uh-oh....Cvet gonna be okay?

I had to look it up to realize that's a mace, like a spiky club, not Mace, the irritant spray one might carry walking home from a club.

It’s gotta be the glasses. The glasses have got to be the thing here

Uh oh, she clocked the glyph.

uh oh

Thank you for the clarification Tom.

Pernach? More like Per-not! Sorry, I should show myself out. They gonna need to turn her glasses into grape jelly, or do something else silly enough Noa hasn't thought to include it in her wards.

Is Noa gonna nom nom Cvet's glyph? Also is it just me or does panel 5 look a lil unintentionally...adult with the pernach popping out around Cvet's muscles? (^_^;)

Getting sprayed with pernach is no fun.

Ooh, can she affect other people's glyphs?

She's gonna snap it like a twig