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Denice is in speech therapy. Today is pretty much like any other day. She repeats random syllables back to the therapist, as usual.
Denice gets et by a magic
Nod. Moment's pause.
"You've been nodding and shaking your head and that's very alright. I have some friends who don't talk outloud at all, and I have some friends who sometimes do but not other times. Is that something you sometimes do? Either way is alright, and you don't have to talk now even if you sometimes do."
"Alright.
Are there any other ways you like to use for talking to people? Some of my friends write, or type, or pick pictures."
darkshen
(She spent some of the time away working on a translator for Heria, has been using the speaking to contribute to it. She takes Heria's hand to hand it over, lets it start to take over the translation while she checks it.)
(In other magic she is not doing - it is in fact perfectly possible to use truth-spells on nods and headshakes. She doesn't do that, now. 'What the arrival wants then to know' is good information to work on, and truth spells are another thing rather fraught for many (as she would have reason to know.))
Most likely then she either did and it was bad, or she didn't and was expected to and it was bad.
"That's alright. This is very alright. You can nod and shake your head; you don't have to do anything else if you can't or don't want to."
And have forgotten at least one question, which, it is not possible to work, certainly not in strange areas, and not make mistakes, even as they sadden.
"Have you spent most of your life in the same place? As opposed to moving around more, for instance living somewhere and then being taken somewhere else?"
"Ok. That's alright.
Do you know if you recently went or were moved from one place to live to another?"