Barbary Coast:
Helena and Lane made their way back to the city street without incident. Stepping into the bright sunlight, she breathed deeply, relieved to be back into her world. There were still signs everywhere written in Chinese, but the feeling down the alley was from another country if not another planet. Helena couldn’t understand how something so foreign existed in the middle of her city, the city she thought she knew. Only a day into searching for Missy Whitaker, Helena realized she was a baby. Lane and Sigmund had protected her from everything. She really didn’t know how anything accurately worked. Suddenly, she was struck by a sinking feeling in her heart.
“Lane, do you have money?” Helena was struck with the panic of being without the person who had paid for everything since
