"A Warehouse is no place to raise a child," she starts (understatement of the century, that). "I had her stay with cousins for the most part, already didn't see enough of her - some men came to rob the house she was staying in. I believe these days she'd be called collateral damage.

"When I say I've tried everything I can think of, I built a time machine of my own." When Joshua makes an intrigued comment, she shakes her head slightly. "It only works on your mind, and - and all that meant was I had to watch it happen." She'd wanted so much to save her Christina, and yet she'd found herself powerless.

"We just had a... bit of a faff in Egypt. An archaeology dig stumbled across what was left of Warehouse 2 and woke it up; we had to go and shut it down before it overwhelmed Mrs. Frederic. I - those must have been failsafes against intruders, if I had to do anything like that just to go to work every day, I'd lose my bloody mind... And the last one." She nearly sobs again. "The last one, I thought I had her back, I really believed it. Of course, if I'd gone on believing it the floor would have fallen out from under me..."

(Not that she's yet convinced that would have been such a bad thing.)

Helena sighs. "And now this."