And now they can go back to Willow's house.

Theo will keep looking at Sadde a bit worriedly.

He will be somewhat shell shocked.

And eventually they'll arrive. The butler will open the door for them and lead them inside and tell them Willow hasn't arrived yet.

Then they'll wait.

Theo… might offer hugs if Sadde looks like he could use them.

Sadde definitely could use them.

Then they can just hug until Willow gets here.

And eventually she will.

"How do we fix this?"

Kero flies after her, looking deflated.

"I don't really want to get the card out and re-duplicate things, because this might just make the issue worse, but that might allow us to get them back? I really have no idea how any of this works."

He looks at the bear. "Kero?"

"...I don't know. It might work, but it might not, it's never happened before."

He looks conflicted. "Does anybody else have an opinion on whether I do this or not?"

Willow shakes her head. "We found two more copies," she murmurs.

"...well, you two are the ones who are going to be copied," Sadde says, recovering a bit of his practicality. "If it's not the same people... we can just duplicate one of you, verify that, and then dispel, less than a minute of extra subjective experience."

"… I wasn't really thinking about dispelling them, I was more thinking, 'well if they do happen to be different, oh well, that's a shame, but they don't have to die at least'…?"

"...or that, yeah, I suppose." He frowns. "Stupid cards."

"Okay, uh." He looks over to Kero. "To duplicate things, do I need to actually summon them, or just tap someone with the card, or what?"

"You need to summon the card, but you don't need to manifest it."

"Okay," he says, and then gets out the key and turns it back into a staff.

He tosses the card out in front of him, says, "Twin, duplicate me into a Tyler," and then taps it with the staff.

… He's pretty sure this is how he does it?

It is! The card glows, envelops him, then returns to card form, and a copy of him is standing right there in front of him.

(Willow cheers up a tad when she sees the whole magical process. Theo's totally a magical girl.)

The copy backs away from him, looking behind himself suspiciously and then moving towards the edge of the room.

He doesn't look too happy.

"… Tyler?"

Vague mistrustful look.

"If you're new you have Theo's memories and know what's up, if you're the first Tyler then the Twin decided to become a card of its own volition and make you die but you're alive, so, which are you?"

"Tyler."

Still doesn't look too happy, but apparently he decided to put them out of their misery of uncertainty.

He breathes a sigh of relief.

"My turn!"