Helena listened with great interest as Irene described her work without really stating any details. Psychology had been one of many areas of interest for her. One of her favorites had been Gestalt, whose ideas had been the catalyst for the way her time machine had operated when she built it. "Do you favor one school of thought in psychology or do you collaborate various trains of thought from different sources?" It would be just like Helena to ask such a scholastic question, but hers was a mind that was curious and needed to know and understand things as well as debate them. The way Irene referred to her clients only intrigued Helena further as to what line of work she was in, exactly. But she didn't get the chance to ask just yet.
"There was a way to disarm it, but no way to control it." There was really no way for a person to control an artifact no matter how much a person may think they could. Helena had been a tool of the Minoan Trident once she'd touched it. Sykes had been a lifelong slave of that damned bracelet that eventually caused him to destroy the Warehouse. Though as Irene started to further discuss her work, Helena looked at her, fully interested in this. At the question, Helena thought for a moment, sifting through her memory. "Yes, I do believe they did. I am aware of some from the 18th Century, so I would imagine they were around in the 19th as well. I never personally knew one, though I would have loved to." Helena was far more liberal in these matters than most would believe of her. Despite the hints she'd dropped to Myka, Pete and Claudia, there was so much more she hadn't shed light on yet. "I also once read Venus in Furs in my younger days. Fascinating book, that." She smirked a bit, then awaited Irene to continue.
Sipping her tea first, Helena smiled warmly. "Ah, now there is an excellent cup of tea." She then picked up her fork and took a bite of her cake. "Oh it is more than as good as it looks!"