Helen shows up not knowing anyone. In her blue dress and pink hooded cape, she endearers herself to the local newspapers editor, Paul, with her astonishing ability to work the almost ancient printing press. A talent he finds very useful in his quest to stop a corrupt townsman. Little does he know that she was stolen out of time to silence another printer from doing a similar task.
Helen is 10, blonde hair that falls in ringlets, patent leather shoes that seem to have an everlasting shine. Her skill with the printing press comes from helping her father Samuel. She is very relaxed for being ‘lost’, as she considers it. Thinking that all locals are too rushed, lying, untrustworthy people, including Paul.
One scene…
Paul is busy laboring over his manual typewriter, trying to get a single page of news typed up, and not fairing too well. He has typed this same page 7 times now. Helen asks why he does not use the press. He explains that it is there as an example to the local school children and he does not know how to use it.
She walks over and takes a page from his small stack of completed pages and walks away. Paul is to entrenched in his writing to notice what she is doing. When he fails complete the page, again, he turns to fine that Helen has blocked the entire page on the press. She asks, innocently, where the ink stores are so she can continue. Of course he does not have liquid ink in that quantity but they make due with toner from the copier and oil from the kitchen. She mixes it to what she deems the correct consistency and completes the inking processes. Paul then works the press to produce the first page from the device in well over a century.
Asking her how she knew how to do this she replies that her father taught her as was his only child and, though not a boy, she was eager to learn. She becomes sad and walks away.
Samuel is frantically looking for Helen in his own time. Being told that she is safe as long as he stops printing his anti-establishment rhetoric by Mr. Filmore, the local inventor and madman. All of the devices he creates must be magic; as no earthly object could produce just light and wonder.
Samuel is a printer. He prints the truth. Always has and always will. But Filmore has his daughter, somewhere, and until he finds her she cannot continue.
Unknown to Samuel and Paul they have the same enemy; Peter Filmore. Rich, eccentric billionaire who is bent on total domination of Hollow Branch and all of it’s populous. He owns most of the folks in town, controls the police and it is said even the Mayor. Paul has some dirt on him; Samuel has some truth on him. Together with Helen they must convince one town in two eras that Filmore must be stopped and all without losing Helen to the vastness of time itself.
