"Your kitties can't help?" asked Terry.
They had certainly found her.
"No!"
"They found you."
"They find places, not people. And I won't let them help you! And I won't, either."
He was losing patience.
"It will be easier if you stop acting like a child! Don't you want to help Ferrando?"
This did seem to have an impact on her. She stayed silent for a while.
"You do it." she finally said. "You did say you would."
He shook his head in frustation.
So this must be what it felt to be a prisoner, Helena thought. She had her back to everyone.
"I don't want to stay here." she said to her mother.
She spoke in her language, wanting only Selina and Maven to understand what she said.
"Talk English." her mother told her.
This time, telling Selina what she wanted wasn't going to help or solve anything, and she knew why. She only looked at Bruce with a look of resentment, although she didn't want to met his eye. She didn't want to be in the same room.
"I want to leave." she tried again. "I won't escape."
"Go with Maven."
Gratefully, her cats followed, as eager to get out of the room.
"You do think she may go and try to find them herselves." said Bruce.
"Helena doesn't look for trouble. Trouble usually finds her. It always did me." Selina added, stroking Cleopatra.
Only Cleo was more attached to Selina than Helena.
"You went looking for it. I just hope it doesn't take her as long to come to her senses, and she doesn't get into the same sort of troubles you sometimes did. A few life threatening."
Selina did look uneasy.
"She won't. I really never thought she'd get into something like this."
"Didn't you?"
"Not like this! And you shouldn't talk to her the way you did!"
"Someone had to. You always indulged her too much. And she's too reckless."
"Well, Terry simply finds Ferrando, and we can forget this whole thing ever happened. And not keep Helena under lock and key. Only right now."
"You don't trust her, either, if you sent Maven with her."
"Only because she's very upset!"
Ferrando wasn't the only one who had been kidnapped. They had gone for the reporter as well. He was sure they thought he must have been in on it as well.
"I'm not the only one!" said Ferrando.
The same reporter to whom he had given his interview was there as well.
"I don't see what's so funny." he said, seeing Ferrando's smile.
Ferrando sighed.
"Nothing about this is." he said, seriously.
"Was this what it was all for?"
"I'm not the one who reveals things about people's private lives. I don't mind the media. Only when they have no respect."