Cassie swings the sword at Helen's neck and all Helen feels is "a strange, vibrating tickle, like someone had pressed a gigantic kazoo against her throat and blown on it" (Starcrossed 255). The sword Cassie had swung at her laid at her feet, mangled and crunched up in a manner much like tin foil. Noticing the mangled sword and a very alive and unharmed Helen, Cassie exclaimed in glee that she had been right and was thankful that Helen hadn't died, jumping up and down whilst hugging her.