I'm awake as soon as the sun rises. "Get up," I poke Helena with my foot. She groans and slowly gets up. "We need to move on. When will we reach a village?" Wiping the sleep from her eyes, she yawns. "Just a few hours." We start walking again. When we see some berries growing on a bush, we eat them as breakfast while we walk. I don't want to waste any time. At lunch time, we reach a small village. We walk in, looking for a place that sells food. "Morwen, people are staring at us." She whispers. "Probably because you look like you're a homeless person." "You're not miss fabulous yourself." She snaps, making me chuckle. "Can I help you, dear?" An old man asks. I politely nod. "Yes sir, please. My cousin and I got lost in the woods as our dog ran away." "O my, come dear. I'll take care of you." He leads us towards a small house. "Darling, we have guests," He says to an elderly woman standing in the kitchen. "Could you clean them as I make something to eat?" The woman comes rushing towards us. "By the merciful God, you look terrible. Come, girls, follow me." She leads us upstairs, to a little, but clean bathroom. I motion for Helena to go wash herself first. "Quickly girl, go clean yourself up. I'm Rosalia and you've already met my husband Peter. Now, what are your names?" I look at the her wrinkled, sweet face. You can't trust anybody. I remind myself. "I'm Ruby and this is my cousin Regina." I make up a story about how we got lost while 'Regina' takes a shower. The woman hands us some clothing and I take a quick shower too. All cleaned up, we sit at the kitchen table. Peter gives us some toast and eggs. "It's not much, but it'll fill your tummies." He apologizes for the small amount of food. "O sir, it is wonderful. Thank you very much." Helena seems to want to speak too, but I kick her underneath the table to shut her up. With her manners, she'll only piss them off.
When we've finished lunch, I try to give the old couple some of my money to thank them. However they recline, saying it was their duty to help. I thank them gratefully for their kindness. "So, where to next?" Helena asks me. I shrug. Then I see a warehouse. "Want to do some shopping?" She agrees happily, since we still look not so good. We both go our own way. Half an hour later, I've found two pair of jeans, a jacket, new boots and a few shirts. I find Helena in the jewelry part. "We don't have money or space for that, genius." "Well sorry for having a sense of fashion." She snaps. I roll my eyes and drag her along. Once we're outside again, we go back into the woods, where we change our clothes. I decide to wear my black short pants, black leather jacket and black high boots. They match my necklace. I put on the tank top I'd gotten myself. It's green with big black letters saying "Loki's girl". The irony. I chuckle while I step back into the clearing of the village again. Helena is already waiting. She's wearing skinny jeans and a black sweater. "Nice, but you'd better ditch the necklace. It draws attention." I clang to my necklace, not planning on putting it off. "You'd better ditch your face, it scares the whole town." To my surprise, she laughs. "Nice one, dickhead." Seriously, this girl has no manners. I think to myself. Well, neither do I at the moment.. We quickly head to the edge of the village, where we find a farmer that wants to give us a ride to the city nearby. Two hours later, we arrive. "Never heard of it." Helena mumbles, while petting Magic. We must be very far from her birth town. "What are we going to do now?" I look at the girl. I don't need her anymore, but I can't leave her like this. Sighing, I tell her my plan. "Listen, I don't know where my team is. So I want to go to Italy." "Why the fuck would you go there?" "Manners!" I warn her, pointing my finger at her. "Do you remember when I told you about my new team? The other girl lives in Italy. We're going to get her." She shrugs. "Whatever, I don't have any other plans." I grin at the lack of caring. The first thing I want to do before thinking about how we get there, is buying a telephone and laptop. After twenty minutes of searching, I've found one. "What are you doing?" She asks, as we sit in a bar and I pull out my laptop. "Nothing," I lie, playing innocent. She hits me on my arm. "Fine, I'm going to try to reach my coworker." "How the hell are you going to do that? You told me they're probably going into hiding if Hydra comes out of the shadows." "Ever heard of the Rising Tide?" She shakes her head. "I figured. Guess it's about time Miles gets back to his job again." With that, I start hacking into the Rising Tide member's server. Within seconds, he's on to me. After a short hacking fight, I get him to talk to me. Helena is silent as she watches me convince Miles into hacking Skye and telling her to call me. An hour later, my phone rings. "Skye?" I ask hopefully. "Morwen? Where are you? Are you ok? What happened?" She screams in my ear. Helena laughs at my pained look as I hold the phone a bit further from my ear. "Skye, calm down. Where are you?" We talk for a while, me trying to convince her it's really me and I'm not Hydra. At last, she gives me the coordinates to the secret hideout they're at. I want to tell her about Ward, but Helena takes the phone from me. "Enough chatting. I'm bored as fuck." She hangs up and throws the phone in her glass of water. I stare at her with my mouth open. "That," I slowly say. "Was the only chance I had to save my team from treason." "O fuck" she mutters. She jumps up and runs away. I storm after her. Just as she's outside the bar, I tackle her. I push her down on the ground, almost choking her. "Sorry" she gasps. You need her. I remind myself. So I let go, ashamed of my lack of anger management lately. "I have to go to my team," I state as I stand up, not bothering to pull her up as well. "I have to warn them." "What about the girl in Italy?" She asks, struggling to get up herself. I make a split second decision. "I want you to get her." "Wait, what?" Her eyes widen in shock and she takes a step back. Magic growls at me, sensing his boss' fear. "I can't do that." "Listen kid, it's your fault I can't go to her myself. So you do it instead. Understood?" She nods, seeing I mean it. I hand her some of my money. "Take it. Buy a plane ticket to Pisa. Take the train to Lucca. She's in the orphanage there. Tell her the Angel send her." She seems to want to make a comment to the angle part, but decides better not to. "What do I do when I've got her?" "Go into hiding. You're good at that." I see the struggle in her eyes. A responsibility like this isn't good for a kid. I look deep into her eyes."You can do this. I believe in you. Magic will protect you." She nods. I take out a piece of paper and scribble a message down. "Give this to the girl, her name is Emma. She can help you." Helena nods again. "I won't let you down." She promises. I hug her. "
You can do this. See you soon again, ok?" She nods and straightens her shoulders. Knowing I can't do more than that, I leave her.