Did Eglamore get a haircut???

Elf ears on the teacher witch? I guess she is either that or a half human hybrid.

Overconfidence is a flimsy shield -Z

The advisor-sister has her face partially hidden by the shadow of her hat providing her of a villain-like lookout. Anyway she seems to instruct by little comments nudging students to thinking the right way.

Poor Noa, having a tragic backstory of being mocked and misunderstood... just like the other witches she is surrounded with in the current time... Yeah I don't have high hopes she'll be redeemable at this point.

Ah… Learning is occurring! Sometimes taking a circuitous route provides both perspective & reference points for future endeavors. * I am enjoying the artwork & expressions of young Ms. Noa. As always, the evolving story is much appreciated.

Former fairy?

Well who is this odd Zimmy-like Sister???

If Noa "blood boils" Annie's crew plushy Rey won't be affected unless she just fire punches everyone. Someone noted she's Parley's opposite, maybe she's got glyph tattoos like the ones that buff the knights but for offense? Despite all that the knights still need armor and weapons (so the Court can kill them if they go rogue? There’s nothing implying they or their outfits are bulletproof). • They’re being taught by an ex fairy? Elf? Human with body mods? Does the sparks coming from Noa's pencil imply that only magical girls can use magical tools? Jack's definitely acting like a magical tool..

When physics and magic collide, it usually hurts.

so did her teacher transform her 70% water into the 2% toothpick water she is now

Get the feeling that this teacher takes the redeye to get to school.

oh their teacher seems fun, wonder where this is going

The glyphs look very similar to symbols of Diego's program code.

It surprises me a little, to see a class of magic with court uniforms. Our girls only had double maths or smtn.

Her face in panel 4- can I steal the face? That's adorable.

Chester (presumably?) class teachers clearly enjoy cosplaying 1930s movies. There is absolutely no other reason the Sister would be dressed like that.

"You overcomplicate everything you touch" ~Someone to me once I stand with Noa. Hahaha

Reminds me of the Sygaldry (runic magic) in The Name of the Wind, the protagonist develops an "arrowcatch", a quasi-automatic device that slows fast-incoming pieces of iron, obsidian, glass, as well as cylindrical pieces of wood. He also wanted to use the runes for bone (to cover bone arrowheads) but his teacher informed him that this could easily trigger a false positive for a human passing by or getting passed by at a sufficient speed. Sygaldry is a specfic variant of Sympathy, the universe's magic of creating links between objects to e.g. have them move in tandem, or transfer energy (there are sygaldric fridges)

The girl is ambitious, reckless, thinks she's smarter than everyone else, and a genius of glyph coding. Somehow the witch teacher reminds me of Kat's mom.

She’s a little cutie patootie :)

Me when I'm coding. Surf Wisely. (It's really me. https://x.com/dolst/status/1998750541363736828)

Noa Zark?

Even though messing around with this simple task made it even more educational for her...

This explains so much.

I have a bad feeling about this. What if she used glyphs to change her body drastically (into present-day Noa)?

Creepy sister

Noah is doing something called "learning". A good teacher can help her learn several lessons from this experience and a bad teacher can help her learn resentment.

I like this funny maxwell's daemon rune

A different path taken to knowledge covers different ground: your mistakes will be very unlike those of others. Pedagogy will fail for you and you will travel your path alone. You have an atypical approach to problems, Noa.

"any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from being a big mean jerk" (Widdershins Comic, 3rd December 2025) so KISS (keep it simple stupid).

Oh lord she’s a blood bender

No downtrodding of the students!

Etheric Sciences indeed.

Wait...if the correct glyph is supposed to heat the water and not the cup, won't that present the same problem with the water in her hand?

Yer a [shit] wizard Noa

Oh no she's legit isn't she. Forged in the fire of fuckups. Built brick by brick with minor booboos. Legit though this is going to be a great way to show her strength I can see it already

I like how this teacher is responding to the situation. Instead of cracking down on her she's allowing her to make (non-serious) mistakes and learn from them, and explain why it turned out as it did.

More reasons to despise individual members of the coven. She's "extra", disregarding basic safety and being ridiculously stupid to (try and) show off.

I was definitely expecting Mean Girls, magic edition. Interested to see where this know-it-all is headed.

Congratulations, you have only outsmarted yourself.

Instructor witch seems to have pointed ears. Huh.