Shen messages back.

Haven't heard from her since last time. I don't think I - did anything. 

I'll be right over.

That is - possibly worse, in as much as it tends to take longer to achieve.

Still with the same nonverbals she moves over to one of the cabinets, takes out a pillow and blanket.

"Would you like to move to the couch?" she points at the couch. "Would you like a pillow or blanket?" she gestures with the pillow and blanket, then lays them down between them and moves away. (In only Reynan and the local language, this time.)

She doesn't react immediately, but then she stands - holding her left arm a little stiffly, she jolted it when she fell - and takes the pillow and blanket and sits on the couch with them. (She's not making eye contact, but it's not the careful avoidance of someone who's afraid to, even though she's definitely still nervous; it seems more like it's just not a habit she's in.)

Does she seem to be using them to become more comfortable, or responding as though she is obeying a directive?

She knows people who look at the ground reflexively and are afraid not to, and she knows people who simply don't make eye contact; she recognizes the difference. 

Definitely the directive one; she hasn't unfolded the blanket at all and is watching, still carefully calm, for the next instruction.

Alright. That is - harder to deal with in conjunction with what looks to be lack of a common language, but Shen should be able to address that, if it is in fact the problem.

"Can you understand me? You can just nod or shake your head," she tries in both languages, in case.

(If she does not seem upset by the move to the couch it is probably still more comfortable.)

She still doesn't seem to understand.

And now that she's sitting up, the design on her shirt is revealed to be a simple drawing of a gemstone, with a few words in an unfamiliar language underneath.

Between that and the unfamiliar language on the shirt it is best to wait for Shen, on this.

She doesn't very much want to leave the girl alone; fortunately the house is equipped for facilitating this. On her datahook she checks safe amounts for in-case-of-possible-malnutrition (as best she can by guessing information she doesn't have, but the nutrition bars take that into account) then from a different cabinet takes a bottle of water and what looks like a food bar. Turns, visibly takes a swallow of the water, breaks a piece off the bar and swallows that too. Puts both on the table near the couch, then backs away again.

"If you want," she says, in case and anyway.

She tries not to tense up at that, and she very nearly succeeds; she continues watching for instructions.

She notices. Which could be many things, from 'expects it to be drugged anyway' to 'was punished for eating'. 

"You can take it if you want," she repeats, again in case. "And you can tell me if you need anything."

And for the moment she sits down again and reads on her datahook.

She watches for another few minutes, then moves the bedding from her lap to the couch, toes off her shoes, and arranges herself in the corner of the couch with her legs pulled up to her chest, keeping a careful eye on Heria the whole time.

Here is Heria reading. (She took a picture of the shirt and ran a search, which did not find anything).

That's fine. She stays put. (She's used to being bored.)

Does she seem to be becoming at all more comfortable?

A little; not much. She's paying enough attention to Heria to notice when she looks at her and go back to attentively watching, but before that she was staring off into space.

Shen arrives into the entrance hall. 

I'm here.

Gets a summary of what's been happening. 

I - she doesn't usually not tell me at all, when she does something. I - don't want to ask...

She agrees with respect to not asking; if this is their Acquaintance's - work, again then she will, it can be assumed, let them know when she wishes to, and if it is not then said Acquaintance does not need to be given information about - generally anyone, but certainly extra vulnerable people. 

And the person is here, either way.

"I've called my friend to come here," she says, more for the tone, now. "She won't hurt you either."

She comes in in the same careful-to-be-nonthreatening way. Reaches out senses. It doesn't seem likely the arrival is a mage or otherwise, but it's worth the check.

The language is - hard to draw, even harder then she'd expect from someone who was the only speaker around. 

"Hello. My name is Shen. I'm not going to hurt you. I'd like to help you. Are you alright?" she says, in the arrival's language. 

There's a brief pause, like she's thinking about it, and then she shrugs.

"The food and the water are for you, if you want them. You don't have to take them, but you can if you would like."

She tenses up again, just slightly, when Shen mentions the food, and again doesn't move immediately when she stops talking, but then she takes the food bar, takes a bite, and goes back to listening while she chews.

She tries to look 'that is very alright to do!' without also looking 'this is what you have to do to make me happy' but this may be a challenge on several fronts.

"Is there anything else you want or need right now?"

She really doesn't like being looked at that way. Her objection is nearly as subtle as the rest of the times she's tensed up, but definitely there.

She shrugs again.

She notices. She returns to a more neutral expression. 

They can't really offer her reading material, given the language barrier. 

"Do you like video?" she gestures at a screen on the wall. 

She considers this question slightly longer than the last, and nods.