"All copies are magical."

"I don't think I realised this," says Tyler.

"They don't do anything, but they're magical so they can't be copied."

"Oh, can I also not be copied?"

"You can't," he agrees.

"So can the Twin be used to put other magic into duplicated objects?"

"What do you mean?"

"The Twin makes magic copies of things, making them so they can't be duplicated. I'm a copy of Theo, I can't be duplicated. I also have magic other than not being duplicable. Can you do similarly with copies of other objects, give them magic other than that?"

"Oh. I dunno. I think it's just that when a human gets magic they can use it."

"… Maybe we should look into dumping magic on nonmagical people. Sometime."

"How?"

"Sorcery might be able to put a lot of magic through someone. Wouldn't necessarily take but could work?"

"Oh. I guess it makes sense."

"Anyway," says Tyler. "I'm not sure if I'm the only one to care about this but you know you have exams shortly, don't you."

Pause. "I have French in a week, fuck."

"Eh," he shrugs.

"Then– biology or something."

"I'm sure you'll do fine," says Tyler. "Everyone always says how easy your GCSEs are and how two-thirds of people get lower than a B in English, same for Maths and – gosh actually you know only about half of people get five A-stars to Cs including English and Maths."

Pause. "Let that just sink in for a minute. Half of people don't get passing grades in five subjects including English and Maths, the core ones, and English and English Literature count separately."

"Yes I know that thank you and – how do you even know those statistics?"

"I googled them so I could be suitably dramatic."

"That was kinda hot," Sadde says.

"… The statistics? Or the drama…?"

"Drama using statistics."

"Right."

"– I think I'll do fine in French and German and Maths but that's later on and the sciences probably too but I don't know about English and I guess probably RE will be okay but I– am not sure."