Medusa

Medusa first appears in the Heart Behind Witch Eyes in Chapter 1 page 21. She is a human and a Stone-toucher Witch. Medusa is one of the highest ranked witches as she is one of the council members and also the leader of the Twisted Dragons.

Medusa, despite her high ranking, is noted for wearing very commoner type clothing that is more intended for her work opposed to flaunting her wealth or position. She also has pointy ears that she gained late in her first life cycle.

Medusa speaks with an accent.

In Heart behind Witch Eyes, Medusa roughly 170 years old and in the beginnings of her 3rd Life-cycle.

Witch Powers; Stone-Toucher
Medusa's witch powers include that of being able to touch anything and turn it to stone. Then she is capable of stopping her own powers and returning them to their original state before having turned them to stone (so long as they didn't break as stone) unharmed. The majority of Stone touchers are only capable of reversing their own stone-touching magic and Medusa is no exception.

Stone touchers, like many other "touch" magic types are extremely strong since their powers develop and the real mastery comes in how much control they have over their powers. More talented Stone touchers are even capable of turning themselves, or part of themselves, into stone and releasing themselves as they please. Even if the power had consumed their whole body!

Beginner stone touchers tend to accidentally turn people to stone and have trouble learning to reverse the magic. Beginner and intermediate stone touchers also tend to require touching the object or person with a significant amount of themselves (such as their whole hand) while more advanced witches, like Medusa, do not. Medusa only needs to touch an object or person with a single hair to turn them to stone.

Beginner and intermediate Touch witches however (luckily) do often need to recharge their strength between using their powers. They will not endlessly turn everything they touch to stone/ice/etc.

"Touch" witches can only turn objects/people they touch into stone. So they can not, for example, grab a hold of someone's scarf and turn that person to stone as well. They will only turn the scarf to stone.

Many Touch-type witches die early on if they do not learn to control their powers quickly. The often fate they face is turning themselves to stone, ice, etc, never learn to reverse it and thus become stuck forever. They are also often hated by those around them for their uncontrollable powers and are often intentionally killed.