"If I were a wholly different person, I would agree with you on the unbelievable part. But considering who I am, I well know that anything is possible. After all, I did build and launch a rocket in the 1890s. I have just always had a strange relationship with religion, so this particular reality may take a little getting used to." Christianity hadn't been Helena's type of thing, really, so she'd have to wait and encounter a demon before she was fully convinced this was a religious happening.
Any time talk turned to her daughter, Helena always got emotional. Even over a century later, the wound was still raw, and perhaps it always would be. One never truly got over the death of their child, especially when it was a violent death. As she thought of Christina, Helena lifted her hand, her fingers sliding under the collar of her shirt, searching for the locket that wasn't there. It was a reflex, really, but as soon as she remembered she'd dropped her locket at the entrance to the Sanctum, she let her hand fall back to the table, an inaudible sad sigh escaping her lips, but she smiled despite it. "Thank you. I will look at it that way, and also as another chance to spend more time with a friend who is also here."
"I'll have an Earl Grey tea, and the chocolate coffee cake, please," Helena ordered after Irene finished hers. She folded the menu and set it aside, and turned her attention back to Irene as the waitress went to put their orders in. "So I do believe you were going to inquire about my top secret line of work?" Helena was always rather to the point about things. Though she wasn't sure exactly what she should say about the Warehouse. Well, the basic overview would perhaps be enough. She didn't need to go into the hierarchy or anything too complex. So explaining her job would probably suffice. And it was, for the most part, a far less emotional topic for Helena, at least until she'd get to the part where she'd been bronzed. And when she'd tried to end the world, but those details would only come if asked for her story, not what she did for the Warehouse.