"I guess we'll never know the truth, then."

Jess seems somewhat amused.

"We'll just have to keep an eye on all these twins and make sure they don't do anything evil," Sadde declares.

"Yeah," says Tyler, sounding thrilled. "Wouldn't want us to go tormenting the townsfolk or whatever."

Theo looks at Tyler, also not seeming super thrilled, then looks back.

And eventually they arrive at the Maxwells'. The honest-to-god butler doesn't bat an eye at the myriad twins and merely asks whether they will desire tea or something else to eat.

Jess has already eaten – and therefore so has Maya, sort of.

Theo, however, has not. And it's been a while since school, so uh, yeah, it'd be nice if they could have something to eat? (He makes sure to ask politely.)

The butler nods and goes fetch the food.

"...sssso."

"So," says Maya. "I have no idea what we're doing about me."

"Yyyeah… Mum didn't seem super excited or anything – again, sorta sorry, feel like it's kinda my fault – but eye-dee-kay?"

Tyler: standing quietly in the background, near to a wall. As usual.

"Well, erm, first order of business is, I suppose, what to do. I assume Mr. Farron was okay with Tyler from his very monosyllabic answer, but there's still the matter of... I mean, I dunno, if I were in any of your places I'd want to know as much as I could about magic and get in on it and stuff?"

"Well I do. Even if I can't do magic."

"I think it was actually polysyllabic, just barely," puts in Theo.

"We can just hang around trying to think of ideas?" suggests Jess to Willow. "And providing wonderful moral support, that too."

"Yeah," says Maya, smiling. "Knowing about magic would be nice – are there, uh, different strengths? Do I have some weak type of magic meaning I can't actually do any weird thing myself, or do I maybe have something like your things…?"

"Woo, moral support."

"There's magic of several different types. The Cards themselves have a hierarchy, but personal magic isn't as neatly divided as that."

"Oh, huh. So, do I probably have a weird magic thing? Or is that, I dunno, rare and I have to poke it a bit or something to get it to show up, or…?"

"Weird magical things are usually just one of the ways latent magic finds to express itself when sorcery isn't actually pursued."

"...you never mentioned this."

"You never asked."

"We, um. We did ask about this before, pretty sure? We asked about other magic we could do and then how to do magic without cards, and you… didn't mention this, or at least maybe you did but said you couldn't help?"

He thiiinks?

"I don't know how to do magic without cards, you're the ones with weird magical things!"