"Nonsense, we're both evil." She starts cackling.

Willow joins in.

"Okay, but if you want to be evil, you might want to try for something more general-purpose than a death ray. Like, a heat ray that has different intensities, that could work approximately the same and would allow for more varied use."

Jess gives Maya a bit of a look. "Aaaand why would you need a heat ray?"

"… I mean, I wouldn't. It's just, you know, probably more useful than a death ray."

"I feel like we have too many evil twins in the room?" says Theo. "It sounds a bit like we're outnumbered here, Sadde?"

Tyler: is still standing at the side of the room, rather passively.

"Don't look at me, I'm an evil twin all on my own," he says, and starts cackling himself. He throws Tyler a side glance but doesn't really have a way to do... anything about it right now, in a stranger's house.

"So, am I alone in being non-evil then? Whatever shall I do."

"Nah, you've still got me," says Jess, then she glances at Tyler. "Maybe him, too?"

Tyler makes a noncommittal sound! It might be agreement. Maybe it's disagreement. Who knows.

"Wonderful, two-or-three versus four-or-five. At least I have the cards, I guess? Well, most of the captured ones, I mean."

"I have a couple of them, too!"

"Well, which cards to do you have, and what cards are there? For purely academic purposes, of course."

"I have, uh, Windy, Jump, Lock, Sword, Shadow and Glow. Sadde's got Change and Fly? And then there are another like thirty or something, I've got a list somewhere."

He looks through his bag to find it.

Maya moves forwards to have a look at it.

"You also have Twin, now," Juniper points out, then she and Willow lean forward to look at it, too. It is quite the list.

"Oh, yeah, that too."

"Some of those sound… raaaather dangerous."

"They are! If Theo doesn't capture them, they will bring catastrophe to the world."

"Come again?"

"Yeah, see, that keeps being said, and like, they can do a lot of damage, but I'm pretty sure it's just that they do basically what the Twin did. So, they cause minor havoc and if we're not careful, they could get worse."

Maya looks between Theo and Kero. "Aaaand is that right or is he totally wrong?"

"It really depends on how fast he captures the card, and which it is—the cards get more powerful the longer they're active. Earthy could sink all the continents on Earth."

She blinks and looks around a bit warily. "And hhhhow long would it take to get powerful enough to do that? Are we talking hours, days, weeks, months…?"