And eventually the place is narrowed down to a random street down which the two avatars can be seen slowly walking, holding hands.

So they haven't been spotted yet? That's good, maybe they'll be able to get up close without the Twins noticing.

The two of them take a detour to touch a mailbox and duplicate it but otherwise do not seem to have noticed the boys.

Theo: has approximately no idea what to do! It's not like he's going to be able to use the Shadow much since it's still daylight.

He looks to Sadde for help.

… Really?

Ugh.

"Gimme the rope," he whispers.

Theo does that! He can competently obey orders, look at him being so competent at obeying orders.

So he takes the rope and: "Fly!" Now he can fly. "Theo, use Shadow, Tyler, the torches, even with the sun I'm pretty sure you can cast a shadow with the torches!"

And the Twin, of course, notices this, and both halves turn around, smirking.

Theo grabs the card out of his bag and activates it, calling, "Shadow!"

Tyler: already has the torches out, and is making his way over to the Twins.

"Two torches, two people!" Sadde calls as he rushes in towards the Twin, who dodge him effortlessly, giggling.

The Shadow emerges, its black shroud standing seven feet tall in front of Theo.

"Four torches," shouts Tyler. "Duplicated!"

Come on, Theo.

Theo: is on his way over to the Twins, too. At Tyler's words, he quickly grabs a torch out of his bag and then continues running.

Sadde starts trying to distract the Twin, using the rope around one of them at a time, who always seems to somehow escape. "Get Windy here, too, and set up the shadows! You're allowed to have ideas, too!"

One of the halves of the Twin decides to start running towards Tyler and Theo, an evil grin on its face.

"He's a bit too busy panicking to have novel ideas!" shouts Tyler, not even looking at Theo. He runs around to get behind Sadde, trying to avoid the Twin.

Theo: not panicking. Look how much he isn't panicking. He's telling the Shadow to shadow the rope, and then he's turning on his torch and trying to figure out how to angle a shadow properly, and he's trying to evade the Twin because really right now he doesn't want yet another copy.

"And yet he's the one who seems to be doing something useful," Sadde calls, smirking. Once Shadow's in the rope's shadow, he calls, "Get Windy to push the halves together, be easier that way!"

Oh, right, yeah, Windy. He summons Windy and gets her to help push the Twins together.

Tyler, actually, is now on the other side of Sadde so he can shine his torch from there, thank you very much, because he thought that it would be better to have two different angles for the Shadow to attack through, on account of the Twins not literally being in the same place.

But sure, Sadde, just complain about Tyler. That's fine.

"Okay I stand corrected," Sadde laughs as he gets out of the way so Windy can push the Twins together. He starts making circular motions with the rope, so that Shadow can tie them up.

Hahahaha, so funny, haha.

Tyler: trying to get to the right angle so the rope can actually cast a shadow and be used.

The Twin tries to get rid of Windy before the ropes are, well, roped, but fails, and now both halves are well-secured.

"Well, that was much easier than I'd expected."

"Yeah. I'm a bit worried that it's not actually going to be as easy as this."

Is this the point where Tyler complains about genre savviness? Because you don't tempt fate by saying that it won't be as easy at this, even if that's a super stupid superstition, because you know what, they have literal magic, they are practically in a story already.

But whatever. He won't, because that wouldn't help anyone right now. He'll just stand off to the side right now.