Wait! Did Parley lose her gains? Was she being magically buffed all this while?

BIPity Boo! A surprise for Noa!

Gotta, say, kinda missed this version of Parley. Rooting for her.

Zala-Kazoo, No Wards Left For You, So BIP to the Bot and say Boo ... you can still shift there, believe it or not! ... so BIP to the Bot and see ... BIP to the Bot and see ... BIP to the Bot and say Boo

Daaaaaannnggg

Debuffed and deflated but not defeated. • I hope she trained for her glyphs being stolen. What if the witches helped develop the Court knights' glyphs, maybe even knowing they can steal them if they become a problem. Also in b4 "She's going after the puppet body *again*!?" Puppet Noa is the more immediate threat and Parley can't see into the æther like Ayilu and even she can barely see Noa's true form.

Love the bottom row of panels! Especially the last 2 frames! Time for Parley to kick up a fuss! Parley is my favorite character after Jones & Kat. She has shown the most significant character development within the story. Parley matured from a somewhat flighty twit to the most proactively responsible person from the student cadre. Smitty has grown a lot also. He assumed a hugely responsible role after becoming the GC Medium. I’d like to see these 2 characters interact again.

Time for the un... The insicht... The umsitchbar...how... The... you know. She invented that before the special training with the glyphs, right? She just needs a stick maybe? Also, shoutout Tom's improvement. Very nice boots these last few pages. First panel is lovely.

Oh my god, she didn’t take her BENDING. She took her MUSCLES. And presumably all the other fancy stuff other than her bending. But at least Parley still has her bending - I mean teleportation! Yay?

Bip, Parley, bipbipbip! Cvet, behind! Will next page finally reveal the true target???

Parley, debuffed

Aaah! I feel like cheering for the BIP! Oh.. and don't get killed, okay?

Parley…

So she still has her teleportation? Or is parley gonna end up inside out if she does? Really make me wonder about her training maybe the nodes can't stay open without the wards? Or maybe it's dangerous to do so.

Please bip behind the circle symbol, please bip behind the circle symbol... Argh! But without Andrew, Parley might not have the finesse and will just have to settle for bipping to trip Noa over Whatever it is, I hope Noa is humiliated by Parley's 'dull' natty power

i have honestly never loved parley more than i have on this page for some reason

But wait, can she aim her teleportation correctly without her glyphs? I guess we'll find out

YESSSSSSSS!

If Noa steals glyphs from mr Eglamore, is he going to become skinny too?

You can take the glyphs out of the Parley, but she's still a dragonslayer!

I say it before and I'll say it again: This arch and fight is amazing and I don't want It to end just yet. Don't listen to the insignificant minority that says otherwise, Tom

Miss! You can't steal natural abilities! Everything else, sure, but not that. Have a nice day.

I love that her clothes are too big now

Took me a second to realize she got her THICCNESS sucked out

Go Parley!

She dun sucked the strongth right outta her!

Looks like Parley lost the strength sigils!

So natural talents can recover when taken away?

She bipped

Noa did, indeed, earn Parley wrath.

I guess she didn't Earn It - n-

Come on!

GET EM PARLEY

an angel lost it's wings

Oh crap, she stole Parley's gains!

Parley would probably feel like a weak baby at this point. That's pretty brave to still join the fight anyway

Oh crap, she stole Parley's gains!

So Noa stole all of Parley's powers and is now super fast and strong? What about all the training Parley had to do? I hope that Parley gets this and knows what kind of mistake the witch girl is likely to make. It is after all Noa's first real battle, as far as we know.

Oh my god, she unstronked Parley...

Please don't kill Parley Tom. Please, I beg you.

I've got a bad feeling about this. Parley :(

Parley, don't go down like this

Oh crap. She took all of Parley’s strength?!

Going down 4 clothing sizes in an instant must be pretty scary

George Parley, earning it.

SHE TOOK HER BEEF!!! UNACCEPTABLE!

So Parley did NOT get natty gains.

I knew the wards gave her super strength and resilience but wow, that was ALL wards, huh? I wonder if she'll even be able to get it all back now that the court is leaving...

I think it is a great attention to detail that Parley lost her musculature when Noa stole her runes. I still think she can "bip" Noa though, and hopefully arrogance is defeated not with strength, but with cleverness.

Oh, Noa took Parley's muscle mass the same way she was building muscle mass for her symbol.

Classic mode Parley can still wreck a fool.

we're gonna be bipping all over the place now...

Yeah! She still got the bip! Running fast doesn't mean anything Noa, if teleportation is in play!

Oh no! I sense a sacrifice coming....

How dare you steal her epic muscled physique. You will pay for this.

I am genuinely concerned about Parley's safety now. Heroic level move on her part.

Wait was Parley’s buffness a magical effect???

Oooh, she took all the other stuff, except for her Bip. Well, she's a hero for sure, proving herself even when wastly outpowered. Go girl go!

Looks like she's putting those captured runes to good use.

o7

This is why we don't use magic steroids, kids.

Ah, so like in "Game of Thrones" you could tell when the storyline was nearing its end because long-running characters started being killed off...

Bip em high and bip em lie, I'm nipping everywhere I go

Parley, stay safe!

Trip her!

Glad to see Parley's not out. After all, the runes may help but it's not like she got the runes & then lazed around playing video games. She's trained hard, and clearly intends to keep fighting even without her boosts.

...Just took what was 'glyph.' That didn't include her psychic teleportation, so she still has that...

Does this mean that Eglamore would also be a twig of a man with his glyphs stolen?

Stripped her of every glyph she had?

Wow I didn't even realize that she took her muscles, those were a glyph?

She couldn't grapple with Noa even at full strength, but who's to say she can't still continually BIP! Noa away from the gang?

The ol' Bip and Trip? Mebbe if Noa bang her face the glyph is a hard reset button? Getting some George gets the bummer of the deal vibes tho.

You are still strong, Parley! Strong in the real way!

Stole the steroids right out of her body

Took her charmed muscles, but she kept her Bip!

Oh oh, Parley making the sacrificial play

George! Don't be a heroine!