"Sure," says Theo, side-eyeing Tyler, then moving to ring the doorbell.

Someone answers the door. It's a butler. An honest-to-god butler. "Good afternoon. How may I help you?"

"Hello," says Theo, acting totally unfazed. "We're looking for Willow Maxwell – she invited us over for a school thing?"

Tyler opts not to roll his eyes, despite his strong desire to do so.

"Oh?" His eyes scan Sadde, then Theo and Tyler. "Oh, you must be the people who are going to help her with her little magically appearing clone. This way, please," he says, gesturing them inside.

Theo frowns a bit but does follow him inside.

Congratulations, Theo, that was a great lie.

Tyler follows him in.

The butler leads them to a fancy living room with sofas and a coffee table in the middle and a painting on a wall and a large fireplace and a vase and small decorative items on a mantelpiece, and retires, presumably to call the Maxwells.

Sadde is absolutely stunned by this.

Aww.

Poor little baby.

Theo looks a mixture of impressed, surprised and weirded out.

It's… rather extravagant.

Yep. That it is.

And then two identical girls run into the room. "Theo!" one of them says, and blinks at the twins. "Who's he?" she asks Tyler, pointing at Sadde.

Her twin blinks slowly at the three, grinning.

"He's a friend who knows about the twin thing," says Tyler. "I'm Tyler."

Theo waves a little. "I'm Theo. … Which of you is Willow, which of you is the twin, and do you have a name yet?"

"I'm Juniper," she introduces. "I do so hope you have an explanation for what's happening and aren't just looking around for other people to whom this happened, too." She sounds posh, prim, and proper, much unlike her eyerolling original.

"Er, yeah, kinda. A magic entity called The Twin who likes duplicating things was at your school today, and it made Theo and, apparently, Juniper."

"Oh. Well, that's convenient, I'm quite fond of existing."

"Wait, magic entity?"

"Yeah. A while ago, I touched some things in a magic book, said a thing, and then these card things went everywhere. One of them was the Twin, and apparently it decided to copy people today."

"Ooh, that's so cool! Real magic!"

"I think the more relevant part of that is that there's a magical entity running amok, copying people. Not everyone is as magnanimous about it and, more to the point, as able to raise sudden twins as our parents are."

"All these magic things are annoying, yeah. You can catch them and stop them from being– quite so annoying, though."

"Catch them? So, that's the plan, then? Catch the Twin and make it stop randomly copying people?"

"Presumably? I mean, I wouldn't want to get rid of people after they exist, but stopping them from being copied is probably… good-ish overall, even though it'd mean neither you nor Tyler were here now?"

"Yeah, I quite like existing, thanks."