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That was a faff that Helena would have rather not had to clean up after. However, everyone is back to as much normal as the Warehouse ever is, and she herself is ready to have a drink.

Thus, there's a Victorian sitting at the bar, straight-backed, and swirling a wooden drink-stirrer in a gin and tonic while writing something on a pile of papers.

She will help if anyone has spotted a ball, but she's trying not to be on the clock.

Still botherable.

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"That's what I said."
Perhaps, once upon a time, it may have worked. But at this stage, some things just aren't worth contemplating.

"You and I would be an absolutely terrible couple, Wooley," She wrinkles her nose. "It would be a wreck."

"You're far too... intense for me, in that regard."
He doesn't feel at all bad about saying it, all things considered.

"Quite, darling." She rolls her eyes. "As I said, it would be a disaster."

David rolls his eyes. "Good thing we're such good friends, then, and won't be tempted to make the attempt."

"Rather. I do not want to know what would happen with that." She actually has a bit of a disgusted face.

On to happier topics, then.
"And how have you been, other than this faff?"

"Not bad, to be honest. I have been allowed to go on a few cases, which is quite the relief." She rolls her eyes. "South Dakota is definitely the middle of nowhere."

"Why on earth would you not be allowed to go on cases? Joshua struck me as smarter than that."
Honestly, Helena's an asset when she's on her game, and she is, now.

"It's not Joshua. It's Artie. More often than not, he gives out the assignments." She sighs deeply. "He does not trust me because I was bronzed."

"Oh, for God's sake. The Regents wouldn't have reinstated you if they thought you were still more of a hazard than an asset. One would think that even an acting supervisor would have the sense to realise that."
The more David hears about this fellow, the more he really wants to give him a talking-to.

"Well, no, darling, although, I must admit that at least some of that is thanks to Joshua." She sighs. "Sometimes I think Artie doesn't really have that much sense. But he has been in the job for quite a while, and I guess he knows a lot."

"How did Claudia put it? A 'high-paranoia' job before the Warehouse, which seems to have fallen into not telling people anything?" If he'd known that at the party, he'd have asked Mr. Kosan why he allowed that to happen.
"I can see where some of the attitude came from, given that, but even so, I wouldn't waste an asset like you without being very sure it was too much trouble to use it."

"Honestly, I am so bloody tired of inventory, I could scream." She rolls her eyes. "I really do not know what makes him tick, as Joshua would say. I just do what I'm told."

"Inventory, really? Does he think you're new to the job or something?"

"I don't bloody well know. I think he thinks I am not to be trusted around Artifacts after the Egypt faff. It was not my fault that the damned shawl pulled me in! Besides, I wanted to put the trident to bed, not use it."

David sighs. "The more I hear about this man, the more I want to give him a piece of my mind."

"He and Joshua have already had it out a few times." She sighs. "It doesn't help that it was Artie who pushed Joshua to use the damn compass in the first place. However, that does not excuse the way he's treated me."

"The two things are unrelated. His issues with Joshua should have nothing to do with how he treats you, and if he can't put his personal baggage aside long enough to focus on the task at hand, he's not a very good supervisor."

"I was connecting things that probably aren't connected, Wooley. I was trying to say that it is not just to me that he does these things." She sighs. "I know Claudia thinks highly of him, but... I just have a problem respecting him when he so obviously does not do the same to me."

David shrugs. "No doubt she has her reasons for liking him so much. It's entirely possible he has good intentions that are getting muddied by everything else. But the fact remains that his intentions are getting lost in the shuffle."
Covering up information from people who need it? Not acceptable.

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