Everything that Helen owned was now in her artist's totebag. In the Tarclaver dormitory closet were the clothes she left behind. Beside her bed in Tarclaver were the required texts on engineering drawing.

On a shelf above her dormitory bed in Tarclaver, was a yellow bowl that had belonged to her mother. On the outside, it was a beautiful deep yellow. On the inside bottom was a rural scene. A cottage on a hillside. A tree-lined road that led to the cottage.