[515]Are you a magician of some sort?

They're on first name terms outside the classroom only. See here.

That's a quite... let's say "blunt" question there of Annie. I'm really looking forward to Anja's answer.

Also: Interesting tidbit of information about Jones. ;D

Aw, come on, Anja, why'd you have to throw in that bit about Jones and Donald being unable to use blinker stones? Now the entire Comments section is going to be taken up with "OhEmGee Kat's dad is a robot!!!1!"

If its psychics then both Anja and Donald have shown similar abilities:

Anja: Binding Ray
Donald: Shielding Annie

If Donald cant use the "training wheels" then there's probably other ways to learn.

We've seen the no-eye symbol on Anja and Ray's holding cell and probably denotes some order within the court.

I kind of pointed out an equivalent to most of that in my post a little above yours, dude.

Also, while both of them can use binding spells, that may not be a psychic gift at all, but perhaps a sort of magic. Or it could just be a different kind of ability than what is needed to use blinker stones.

Or maybe it's like whistling or snapping your fingers and some folks just can't do it.


Oh, and speaking of the no-eye symbol...

Or he can't use magic at all himself, and he was using some item or dormant spell somebody else made.


But she doesn't seem to have much focus; if fact, she doesn't seem te be able to have any control at all. I think she falls under the catagory "unable to use one". Wouldn't the court have given her one if it would help?

Didn't Tom confirm it was Donald?

Yeah, he did: gunnerkrigg.proboards75.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=40&page=23#1206820706.

Via gunnerkrigg.wikia.com/wiki/Word_of_Tom:_Parents_and_Court_Staff#On_page_285.2C_who_makes_the_shield_that_appears_in_front_of_Reynardine:_Donlan_or_Rey.3F. That wiki is hardcore!

Cool things about teaching, you always have visual support to show your students...

I wish I had Anja for a science teacher

To demonstrate its abilities?

As cenit says, teaching is aaall about the visual aids

Of course Donald's shield could have been something other than psychic. There's more to the etheric arts than purely psychic surely?

Perhaps she wanted to see if Surma had taught Annie. As far as we know Annie hasn't told Anja that she was given it by Mort, she could be presuming that Surma gave it to her.

And I've said before we still don't know where Mort acquired it from. Wild speculation: Surma via an afterlife.

Anyways: Kat is simply the cutest thing in panel 2! *squee*

It's interesting that Kat is so completely surprised by Annie's last question. Either she has no clue about Anja's various abilities (unlikely, considering that she's seen them in action) or she knows that there's a perfectly rational, scientific explanation for them.

Isn't the graph paper lovely? And, divided into 25 blocks per segment, it seems to be in good old fashioned CGS metric style. No inches for these hardcore mathematics!

Ben

Maybe Anja prefers a different term to "magician".

I just had a brainwave. I went to the page with Annie and Muut linked there. A few pages later Jeanne shows up after Annie dozed off. And note that Annie had asked Muut about the light on the other side of the waters.

Okay--so we know the blinker stone is a psychic lens? And Annie's a natural for using and seeing with it, right?

Is there any chance that given the blinker stone was sitting right next to her that it might've amplified her curiosity about the ghost on the other side of the Waters....and brought Jeanne across the river? The stone might be amplifying her "attractive" qualities that Mort mentioned.