"...so, hi," he says to the Twin. Both halves ignore him.

Tyler: still standing off to the side.

Maybe they'll respond to Theo instead? "Hi?"

They look at him, and smirk.

"Anything in particular that's funny, or are you just being annoying?"

They shake their heads simultaneously.

"Care to volunteer the actual reason, then?"

They try to shrug, fail due to shadowed ropes, and shake their heads.

Theo looks at the Twin for a couple of seconds, then turns to Sadde. "So now what do we do? Any ideas? Because I'm drawing a bit of a blank after 'tie them up'."

"Um, presumably we ask them not to dispel the copies after they're captured?"

"… Uh, is that a conscious thing they can choose to do, though, because Kero made it sound kinda like that was autom—" he starts, then decides that really that's not helpful. "Okay, yeah, sure, uh."

He turns to the Twins. "Could you just not get rid of the things you copied when I capture you? Since we already have you tied up and all?"

They grin—

—glow—

—become a card—

—and Tyler disappears.

"Are you f–" he starts, going over to grab the card.

He looks at it, a bit panicky.

It does not float to either of them, falling to the ground instead.

"...fuck."

And Theo's phone rings.

Well, Theo still walks over to it and grabs it, and then he answers his phone.

"It turned into a card of its own accord, I'm sorry, okay, I have no idea– I just, we're trying to deal with it, okay?"

"...okay. Do we meet at my place?" She sounds like she's shaking a bit.

"I– yeah?" He looks to Sadde and relays the question, just to check.

He's staring at the point where Tyler was standing, looking a bit—traumatised.

"Sadde," says Theo. He looks at him a bit more, then over at where he's looking, seems briefly sad, and then snaps his fingers in front of Sadde.

"Huh? Oh. What? Yes, sure." Still a bit abstracted.

Theo frowns but repeats the confirmation to Willow, then says bye and hangs up.

"We should probably go."

"Mmhm."

He doesn't move.

"Sadde," he repeats. "I get that he's just died and this is traumatising, and sure, let's mourn his maybe-death later, but right now Willow is probably panicking too, so how about we get over to her and see if there's anything we can do to fix this?"

Snap to attention. "Yes. Right. Okay. Let's go."

This time he moves.