"So, am I alone in being non-evil then? Whatever shall I do."

"Nah, you've still got me," says Jess, then she glances at Tyler. "Maybe him, too?"

Tyler makes a noncommittal sound! It might be agreement. Maybe it's disagreement. Who knows.

"Wonderful, two-or-three versus four-or-five. At least I have the cards, I guess? Well, most of the captured ones, I mean."

"I have a couple of them, too!"

"Well, which cards to do you have, and what cards are there? For purely academic purposes, of course."

"I have, uh, Windy, Jump, Lock, Sword, Shadow and Glow. Sadde's got Change and Fly? And then there are another like thirty or something, I've got a list somewhere."

He looks through his bag to find it.

Maya moves forwards to have a look at it.

"You also have Twin, now," Juniper points out, then she and Willow lean forward to look at it, too. It is quite the list.

"Oh, yeah, that too."

"Some of those sound… raaaather dangerous."

"They are! If Theo doesn't capture them, they will bring catastrophe to the world."

"Come again?"

"Yeah, see, that keeps being said, and like, they can do a lot of damage, but I'm pretty sure it's just that they do basically what the Twin did. So, they cause minor havoc and if we're not careful, they could get worse."

Maya looks between Theo and Kero. "Aaaand is that right or is he totally wrong?"

"It really depends on how fast he captures the card, and which it is—the cards get more powerful the longer they're active. Earthy could sink all the continents on Earth."

She blinks and looks around a bit warily. "And hhhhow long would it take to get powerful enough to do that? Are we talking hours, days, weeks, months…?"

"For that, weeks. It can create an earthquake in less than two days, though."

"Okay, and why are these, um, cards, like, places? Did they just appear there – no, you said some guy made them – did he bury them different places or something?"

"No, Theo scattered them when he found the Clow Book, where they were sealed."

Juniper does not say "nice job breaking it, hero," but she sure does think it.

"In my defense, the book clicked open when I walked near to it, the top card was 'The Windy' and apparently picking her up and saying her name made all the cards scatter, okay, so, I hardly feel I can be blamed, even though it is my fault."

"… Ah," says Maya. "Okay. And… why were they in this book? And where was this book?"

"A museum. And– I don't know, safekeeping or something? Kero?"

"The book was their seal, and I was its guardian, tasked with keeping them safe and contained."