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Yes, I don't think I explained it well enough, and regret I cannot change it. Leaward was given tablets by his psychiatrist, Tale. Tale gave him these tablets that send him into a trance like state. His real name is also not Edward Tale at all. He made it up so that when Leaward was caught and he had to find out what was wrong with him, he could make it seem like he imagined the "Tale" character out of nowhere. And with the tablets, he had the real pot and the fake one. The real one had the real tablets in, which he took from Leaward at the station, and the fake one had tic tacs, which he could pretend Leaward was really taking.

Of course, it would be made a lot clearer in the novel itself, I just don't feel I summed it up in as clear a way as I could have done.