"Better now that there are people wearing clothes."

Normal enough reaction she supposes.

Hannah emerges uneasily from the jungle foliage. "Mama, I think I made a mistake." She looks like she's been crying. 

"You're not wrong there!" Zaneta says, trying not to shout. "Did you even have the original's permission?"

Hannah doesn't speak.

"Well?"

Maurice fidgets. "...She didn't. But I made her do it! And she put her back right after."

"...what's she talking about?" Claire asks Carol, who's suddenly very pale.

She hugs herself and shivers a bit. "I—I—Um..."

...so of course this is a great moment for a horde of identical clones of William to emerge from the woods screaming at the top of their lungs.

Pursued by a mass of angry cats, birds, and very sleepy bats. 

Zaneta is briefly flabbergasted.

"...He was being mean earlier and I guess the triplets heard."

Zaneta proceeds to zip one of the William clones to one of the island's reading rooms. "Just-just-try not to upset anyone, okay?"

"I didn't do anything," he cries—and he's actually crying, his face streaked with tears and his body shivering unconsciously. "They just attacked me—first there were the scorpions and then—"

Okay, hug is required.... "There, there, everything's going to be--scorpions?"

"They disappeared after a bit," he sniffles.

"Ah, that was probably Maurice." She sounds fairly surprised by that.

Nod.

She kneels to meet his eyes. "Look, there's something a bit dire I need to deal with at the moment--I suppose you were a bit preoccupied to notice the other Carol--but this isn't something I can allow to continue, either. Tell you what, how about I leave a few copies of you with some friends for the night if you don't feel safe, and once things have calmed down I'll put the fear of God into the other children?" 

Another nod, slower and calmer.

She perks up a little. "Right, anything you want to take with you?"

Shrug.

She zips off for a second, returning with clothes. "First, pants."

Sure pants.

"How many bodies do you feel safe with off the island?"

"...fifteen."