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Violet: I’ll scope out the restaurant area, tell you what physical risks I can spot. You got any kind of magic premonitions of danger?
Atarangi: Oh, I can scan for that — give me a moment.
Atarangi (runes): Give me sight beyond sight
Violet: Atarangi? You got somethin’ there?
Atarangi: . . . No. Doesn’t look like anything to me.
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Um. Ummm.. I don’t like that eye effect….
Maybe it’s just Pond Thing Neineikura getting some front time, and it hasn’t figured out how to ask politely to be part of the normal rotation.
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Either that scan spell overrides your ability to control you facial muscles and gives you a (briefly) slack jaw, or Atarangi just told a fib bigger than she is.
In the unlikely event that AsimovSideburns is incorrect about what just happened, I’ll offer the possibility that Atarangi could have just had a revelation that she feels is personal.
Hey, didn’t we just have a page on how the Whispers work? And how they’re transmitted by spirits whispering in your ears? And didn’t Rowan’s eyes when he had the Whispers look like that? And doesn’t that magic Atarangi just did require summoning and listening to spirits? Which we then saw around her head in an unusual pattern?
Uh oh!!
YUPPPP
Adds a whole new level to the arc title of “Overwritten”, too
Also Atarangi’s spell is fizzling/fading out with a glitchy sort of effect, which… I suspect is not the normal way it fades out.
Gonna put my chips down on “if somebody fronting in a multiple system contracts the Whispers, anybody else in the system is less or unaffected”. And a corollary, “this is only helpful if an unaffected system member can get into front, and of course the affected person doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with them…”
Plus her response is the stock “safeguards screwing with the speaker’s mind” catchphrase of Westworld.
Oh… oh dear. O.O
I’m quite curious about that dark line that appeared on her cheek in panel three and four…
I think that’s just her cheekbone. She has been shown to have some fairly prominent ones
Ah, yeah, you seem to be right, it’s strange how that little detail of the solid outline on the cheekbone is very inconsistent.
Since no one else said anything. Panel two spell is a quote from Thundercats an older cartoon.
Thank you!
Oh my… I wonder if we’ll find out what exactly she’s seeing.
oh dear that seems… ominous
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