People appearing out of nowhere is. new. though she supposes it happened to her, too. It's still deeply weird that she hadn't heard of it before, if it's as commonplace as they're treating it.

She keeps watching.

About the same patterns continue. After a while the same two people come back out of the building and disappear again. 

Yeah. That's not surprising, really, but she still has feelings about it. She curls up a little - it's so weird being the only kid here. (She still wants a hug.)

After a little more time, there's a knock on the outside of the (open) living room doorway, and Heria is standing there. 

She startles at the sound, and immediately forces herself to relax again before looking up.

"Hey, sorry to startle you.

It's absolutely alright if you don't want to look around the house, but I thought there were a few things you could want to know, still."

(Had the files Shen found said anything about whether she needed assistance in restroom use?)

(She has staff assigned to her for showers, a few times a week; no mention either way about anything else.)

She watches; it's obvious that she's a little nervous.

"Do you usually need support in the restroom? It is absolutely alright either way."

From her reaction it's clear that she doesn't want help, but also that she won't resist if they decide to accompany her. Whether she needs it is less clear.

What she wants is as important as it can be, here. 

"Ok." And she explains how to reach the restroom from this room. "Do you think you'd be able to find it and go there, if you needed? It's alright if not, we won't be upset, and we'd see what we could do to help."

(She should have thought of this much earlier. Distracted by worry is a reason, but not excuse. She's taken on this work, she needs to do it well. But she is a human also, and in this way it is. Understand, and remember, and try better.)

She looks not just dubious but alarmed, when Heria starts giving directions.

"Ok. I'm sorry. Does that sound too complicated, or something you're not sure you'd be able to do? Or is there some other problem? Nod if it's the first one?"

"There's some other problem?"

"Eeh?"

"Ok. Would it help if one of us walked with you to go there?"

She's not happy about that suggestion, but she doesn't tense back up, either.

"Ok. Well, if you realize you need to use a restroom, and you call us, we can walk over with you. And if you don't want to do that, and you want to do it yourself, or try to, that's absolutely alright. And if you realize in the middle you need help, or something goes wrong, that's still alright, and we can come try to help then."

She shrugs, and then nods.

"Ok. 

Is there anything else you think you need right now?"

She shakes her head.

"Ok. Do you want company, or would you rather be on your own some more? Nod if you'd want me to stay, or Shen to come back. We won't mind either way."

(This is so weird, this is not how anything works, any moment now she's going to give a wrong answer and... she can handle it, whatever happens, she knows she can, but not knowing what will happen, or when, is scary.

Whatever. She'll deal with it when it happens. Relax, relax, everything goes so much worse if you let them get to you...)

She shrugs.

She can tell Denice is tense, but that kind of help needs more knowing about her than they have. She keeps her body language and tone as reassuring as she can.

And, she doesn't seem wanting-but-pushing-it-down, and asking them to come back later can be easier done than asking them to leave later. 

"OK. If you want us or need something, just push the signal button or call and we'll be right there."

And she leaves again.

Hopefully it won't be too awful when this finally blows up in her face.

She goes back to watching out the window.