[Eon's POV: ]
"That's obviously cheating!!"
"How is it cheating when you tell someone to not do one thing and they don't do it? They're not doing what you don't want them to."
"But she told you all about us! She even helped you!"
"All Celes did was to make clones of us inside the carriage. That had nothing to do with helping us.
Now, think of what would have happened if she had not made those clones.
Wouldn't Taika sense them anyway and be more worried of us or what we were up to?
Think about it.
She would have come up to the carriage and found us as well as our clones that weren't us.
She would be confused and then she would think about what was the real ones, but before she could have done that, we would have vanished anyway and reached you.