Helena's backpack is a simple, worn, black bag, made of canvas.
The contents:
- About a dozen loose, unused kleenex
- A battered composition notebook, filled with sketches of people's features and life drawing scenes
- 9 pencils (3 unsharpened)
- 2 bookmarks
- large bag of peanut M&Ms
- A small crowbar
- 2 rubber bands
- 1 plastic pirate eye patch
- 1 pair of canvas shoes with mismatched laces
- 1 book of matches from a scuzzy motel
- A battered Isaac Asimov novel without a cover
- 1 pair of over-sized sunglasses
- 1 broken iPod
- a bejeweled cell-phone case.
- a set of random keys on a large key-ring
- a tin of curiously strong breath mints
- an unlabeled rewrite-able CD in a paper envelope
- a deck of playing cards
- 1 half roll of duct tape
- a tube of chapstick
- 1 bent cigarette
- 3 scarves
- an umbrella
- 2 crumpled dollar bills