It's been a few days since Laura got out the hospital, and nothing important or interesting has happened. Except for Theo and Sadde having just captured a new card, Glow, though that's debatably quite boring. Theo turns to Sadde, as though she might have the answers. "Okay, seriously, a card that glows? First it's wind, then it's a huge bird, then you have a blue lizard, there's a bloody Easter bunny, then a shadow, then a sword, and now a card that glows?"
"Long story short, magic is real, a magic thing created a copy of you earlier today and then killed her but we can bring her back to life."
"Yyyyeah. Okay, so… how? And does it, like, hurt me or something, just so I know in advance – magic?"
"No, it doesn't hurt – basically you just stand there while I do some embarrassing thing and then you'll have a twin."
"He is a magical girl," Willow giggles, "who has to say magic phrases and wave a pink staff!"
"He doesn't need those specific phrases, he just needs to say something about it and mean it."
Theo restrains himself from strangling Cerberus – it would be bad to do that, of course, might frighten Jess.
"Not really," he responds, getting out the Key and saying the stupid phrase to turn it into the staff.
There is magical wind! Light shows! Magic! Pink staff! Willow is giggling helplessly!
Apparently they're just gonna do this at the door, then? Well, okay then.
Jess stands there patiently.
Then Theo gets out the Twin card and asks Juniper what the name of the twin was.
"Maya. Should we maybe not do this at the door? Since it's, like, magic and stuff." She looks around. "Not that anyone's looking, but," shrug.
Theo enters through the doorway, hoping the pink staff transformation wasn't seen while he was outside.
Okay, well, some of them might need to move over into the living room if they don't wanna get squished, but sure…
And so he throws the card out in front of him – fortunately there's enough room – and says, "Twin, copy Jess into Maya," and then taps it with the wonderfully pink staff.
Not new Jess! New Maya.
"… That was weird," she says. "Can I not do that again, please."