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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
Hug. Familiar comforts. They try, and they learn, and they go on.
(They loop in Laeres to the most recent things.)
Alright. Given the Asylum's - approach, do they have existing records of what kinds of food Denice likes?
If they want to trust them, yep. Sweets, mostly: chocolate, marshmallows, gummy candy, pancakes, strawberries, and chocolate milk.
They don't have notes on that for her, since it isn't part of the training. They can see the menu for the whole facility, though, to get an idea of what she'd be familiar with in general: it's a fairly uninspired collection of kid-friendly foods, with at least one entree that can be eaten by hand available for each meal and lots of sandwiches.
Alright.
(Some of the foods don't translate in words, but that's not too strange. (Certainly not comparatively).)
darkshen
Shen does a search on the strange foods, in case that's more helpful than searching the alphabet was.
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So not by alphabet and not by concept-of-item or by pronounced word either (in case it was just the particular alphabet that's this obscure). That continues to be increasingly bizarre...
They consult on food plans. Asking her to choose is, now that they know, not very much something they want to do anymore. The actual identified foods could be more likely to have bad associations. If they had more they could have tried to use features to identify more foods she might like, but that is not what they do have.
(Is Denice herself still asleep?)
They've already read about the aversives, and the general punishments; that's all there is in that vein. (Being punished for being agitated certainly explains why she wanted to be left alone while panicking.) Much of her early training was focused on getting her to stop stimming (a technical term, but she knows it: fidgeting, in the ways that kids like her fidget as opposed to the ways adults or other kinds of kids fidget; in particular rocking and hand-flapping), follow instructions, make eye contact, and be generally quiet and still, and more recently it's been focused on simple academic work and attempting to get her to talk more.
...yes, that would
('early training', blessed earth.)
That first might be clarifying on her possibly belonging to a group they didn't like where she was from... (Some of the rest seems more their-convenience oriented.)
I wish I was at all confident we could get them brought up on charges...
darkshen
It's a large universe.
Hm, republic, several hundred million people...
Space traffic for the last... month? Extranet signature?
Nothing launched past the planet's moon, and nothing manned sent even that far, and no extranet signature whatsoever.
darkshen
That would support the 'isolated and refused network connection'.
(What was L even doing there? Why -)
She stops looking - might not be something she's supposed to be doing. (Still nothing in any messages...)