"Can you tell me something about them?" Terry tried again.
"No, I can't!"
"Speak English, will you?"
"I don't know how you would say it in English."
"Yes you do!"
She was being deliberately unhelpful. He felt like shaking her, which obviously wasn't an option right now, as they were speaking through the com link.
"I don't want to help you!"
"You can really hold a grudge, can't you? You're acting like such a child! We will find Ferrando much faster if you tell me."
She hated to admit it, but she knew he was right. And she hated to admit she was wrong. But she wouldn't make it easy for him. But if she wanted to find Ferrando, she had to help him.
"It was a little bit like when you film such a scene."
"Only this one was real."
"Well, yes. It was, but there were no cameras, no crew, no…nothing."
"No Aragonese!"
"Not Aragonese! Polish. I learned a little from a couple of Polish born actress. They're sisters."
"You're speaking Polish now, are you?"
He didn't even know she spoke Polish.
"Only a little bit."
"I don't think now's the time to show off how many languages you speak, Helena!"
"No, it's not!" she admitted.
Now the important thing is, how are we going to get out of this mess, thought Ferrando. It really did look hopeless, he thought.
None of the parts he had ever done had been kidnapped, so he'd never even pretended to be kidnapped in his work.
"We have your agent to thank for this!"
"It wasn't my agent." Ferrando said. "Only someone you filmed once, who I happen to know."
"And who was this someone? I don't know who you're talking about."
"I'm not surprised. You've filmed so many people, I guess it must be hard to keep track of them all." he answered. "You were very eager to get me on your show, though."
"If I'd known it was all just-"
"You would have been more than happy to still have me on your show pretending to be Batman, as long as no one found out the truth. That you had hired me to pretend you were interviewing him."
"I can't believe I fell for it!"
"Neither can I."
"Everyone went to save themselves." Helena was remembering. "Well, they had to, after all. I did try to help, but there were just too many of them."
"Can you remember something about them?"
"Like?"
"What did they look like?"
"I pay very little attention to people most of the time. They don't interest me too much."
"I should have known that."
"And you can use Altair's charm to help, too!"
"What does Altair's charm have to do with it?"
"She's missing one. All my kitty charms have tracers on them. In case anyone gets lost, which isn't very likely, or they fall off. Then we can just find them."