"I do like the second chance. Though I guess for me, this is really my fourth chance to reinvent myself." Her second chance had come after she'd been debronzed, but she had fallen in the end. The third had been after her consciousness had been separated from her body and kept in the Janus Coin, then when Sykes had put her back together, so-to-speak. "I am looking forward to this. I do hope I get it right this time." Helena chuckled, running a hand through her long, dark hair.
"I know it sounds completely insane, and I am fully aware if this were anywhere else, I would be institutionalized. Or worse." She chuckled. And it was only in that precise moment she realized she'd just told her one. For a moment, Helena merely blinked. All Warehouse employees were able to tell one other person about their job. Helena had never used it. She had planned for Christina to be the one to know, when she had gotten old enough, but that had never happened. And when she'd been debronzed, all the people she'd met that meant anything to her were all ready Warehouse Agents themselves. But quickly, Helena recovered herself.
"It varies. The rigging of the Mary Celeste can coil itself around you, the more you pull, the tighter the knots get. It is like a boa constrictor killing it's prey. I was caught in it once, not a nice feeling. The Minoan Trident if plunged into the ground three times can unleash the force of a supervolcano and plunge the world into an ice age. It is theorized that the Trident was responsible for the sinking of Atlantis. The piece of masonry from the House of Commons absorbed the entire concussive force of the German luftwaffe during World War II, as I was told. So it was a bomb ready to explode. Though when I encountered it, it was hooked to another bomb, turning it into a nuclear device. Let's just say that is how I met my end shortly before ending up here. Though I managed to save my friends, but not myself." Helena shuddered slightly, remembering that intense heat against her skin in the moment before everything, including herself, was incinerated. At least it was a largely quick and painless death. "Those are only a few examples. There are many other artifacts that have less dire effects, but they are no less potent or harsh, they just tend to affect one person instead of many."