Haylo

Since Ashley has a track record of guessing at details when she can't be given the information, what are the odds that she has or soon will guess that her internet friend might have really been able to transform? (Independently of whether her guess is correct?)

If Tedd/Tess is worried that the watches may soon be gone for good but confident of eventually getting some form of morphing back, he might want to copy all available forms to the TFG as well as having Grace memorize them to maximize his chances of recovering them later.

Fortunately, Mr. Shive is probably one of the "stable" ones that can remember which of his assistants are separate individuals and which are other facets of his personality....

RE-turn to the light side, rather - I get the idea that she only slowly drifted to the dark after too many centuries and never completely gave in.

I have always thought of Uryuom Power and Earth-type Magic as being different "shapes" or maybe "frequencies" of magic -- so that Uryuoms, for example, might not be a close "fit" for the Earth-type Magic. That would provide a way to make different rules by species.

Perhaps Box makes a point of rewarding any victim subject that's particularly entertaining?

That's with the expectation of a spherical or hemispherical area. While that does sound most likely, my next guess would be the area Sarah is wondering about, trimmed to the limit of her spell's power. She would likely wonder about things like entire rooms, buildings, or roads, so a flat "end-of-scan" might be how the spell goes down the road until it runs out of thaums. With that clue slightly blunted, Dan has done a masterful job of obfuscating the total area.

Just too out of character for me. Most of the fun of these fairly innocent pinups is seeing the characters' reactions to them, and stepping this far out of character feels as if we are just seeing ( for example) Heidi's body double with a stranger who looks a little like Carol.

If either one of them winds up still waiting for enchantments to wear off when they absolutely have to get back to their family or trigger a panicked search, they could end up being outed to one or more parents, in a community where information about magic is rarely shared between generations.

I just noticed that Rhoda was specifically thinking"I need to look different". Could this most recent spell actually be an illusion instead of a transformation?

If Mrs. Pompons is actually a blond, then the "other" woman could be her non-dying parallel-world counterpart, who is the mother of parallel-world Susan AKA Diane. Now, to me, cheating with a parallel-world counterpart is still cheating, but to someone who sees them as different parts of the same person...

I have to take Nanase's position: You can't skip warning people about threats to their lives or their relative's lives just because the warning is traumatic, and Diane is nowhere near corrupt enough to decide her survival doesn't matter compared to antagonizing Susan. I do agree that with 20-20 hindsight they should have gotten an intermediary and done less intrusive research, but until after the fact there was no way to know that wouldn't be even worse.

On another tack, as we learn more about how Magic itself can be an active character, there could be way for Susan and Diane to be totally unrelated: Magic might insist that Potential Vampire Hunters be born in pairs (or more) because of horrifying attrition rates. There could be a lot of Susan look-alikes throughout the world (this generation). In another generation, Van Helsing might have lasted as long as he did because there was always another one to take over for him...

That only means she wants to look 18 at least part of the time. It would be very rare to erase an old backup unless you were very short of space...

Is the "Rookie Mistake" that when Catalina tries to "turn back" she won't yet have the skill to resist just one enchantment and will throw off any other enchantments at the same time (such as the shrinking enchantment Rhoda put on her)?

Magic most likely uses options that Science doesn't know about. Instead of shrinking a complex life-form, put it elsewhere (perhaps in the space between the two halves of the world?) and go first-person with a fairy doll, which doesn't have to support life or intelligence for itself. Dex's fairy can be created with only Dex's power level (probably made easier because it has neither persistence like Nanase's nor stored energy such as Susan's releases when prematurely dismissed), so Rhoda might have plenty of magic to sustain a "mini-Catalina" which can be compressed as easily as a foam-rubber doll.

There might be quite a few frequently accessed pages already in the local cache, and perhaps those could be brought up...

Tiny little frogs can be heard a quarter of a mile away, so there has to be some way to do it.

...careful what you wish for... The spell could affect both of them, leaving them to (hurriedly) choose where to hide and for how long, and hiding out together is romantic...

If this is the case, simulated magnifying glasses will turn out not to work, or we might be given some similar hint in following comics.

Granted! This simple, easily-installed program permanently shuts down the telepathic centers of the brain, preventing direct transmission of knowledge or skills. No longer will annoying songs or games spread uncontrollably through the population. Since none of the art of telepathy can be described visually or verbally, the world will almost immediately forget it ever existed, and there will be no one to teach it to future generations. I wish people who developed busts they had no use for could donate them to people who felt a lack thereof.

A magic simulation might very well simulate magic (or the related Uryuom Power) abilities. Grace would probably be fine with Sarah learning what it feels like to have her own shape-shifting ability, but does Sarah know and remember those clone forms Grace promised not to use?

Her normal appearance suggests a carefully-understated Catgirl done with makeup only. This lot may have even seen her before and speculated about how much better she could do with added props...

Perhaps it's a modification of the way they pass on information to their next lifetimes?

Maybe a series of "You're Always Covered" adds? "My house got stomped flat by a monster!" "That was actually a tornado, but even if it was a monster you'd still be covered."