Shen double-checks.

(Shen has monitoring going for things like alarming vital sign changes, but just curling up the body position won't send off alerts.)

Nothing in the documentation about being punished for eating, no.

Her heart rate is a little alarming. Breathing's not looking so hot, either. Panic attack, looks like.

That will send off alerts. 

She'll come running but not actually go inside - stay outside the door and out of sight. It's guessing and she wishes it wasn't, but Denice has generally seemed more nervous of them than lonely for them and calmed by them. 

But if it keeps going on she'll try intervening. 

Yeah, it's not going to stop that fast.

She's curled up in the chair by the window, still and quiet but very tense, her breaths quick and ragged.

She comes into the room, carefully.

"Hey,

It's ok, we're not going to hurt you - 

Did something happen that hurts you?"

She doesn't move, doesn't respond. Tries to slow her breathing, doesn't get very far on that.

"It's ok to be upset, I'm not going to be mad at you, I only want to try to help..."

She tries to think - the food topic had obviously been fraught - but she was starved, of course it is likely to be, and the details she still doesn't know. But this hadn't happened until she'd left the room...

She looks at the tablet - untouched, still paging through foods. She has it stop that.

"Was there something upsetting on any of the food slides?"

She whimpers. It sounds vaguely positive.

Meanwhile - Heria is sharing with her, updates as she sees or thinks them.

hadn't happened until she'd left the room

and oh, oh hell, if it is - 

She casts to the house's ward monitor, runs through it, runs through it again, runs through the actual wards - nothing, nothing, but -

She used to say things to me in my head at work sometimes she sends back to Heria (who knows that) just - out of nothing, if she wanted to. I wouldn't have panicked at it, I didn't, but -

I checked all the wards, there's nothing, but if she wanted to get in and leave nothing enough she could do it -

She doesn't flinch, because that would not be the body language she's holding.

"Ok.

I'm so sorry, I didn't think of this, Shen just reminded me - did you hear someone saying things your head, or something like that?" (Denice doesn't seem to have the actual word - has a word ('telepathy') for something like fictional kinds of mental communication, but not the actual one. Not necessarily strange, that, and documentation's already told them limited magic exposure.)

She curls up tighter, and stops even trying to stay calm.

"It's ok, it wouldn't be your fault, we wouldn't be mad at you, we - " (what and how much does she say...) "we think we know who'd be doing it, and Shen will try very, very hard to get her to stop and never bother you again, we won't give you to her..."

(There's still no messages there's nothing in the wards did she do something to bring this on what did she do how does she fix it -)

The very quiet panic attack continues.

"Can you - nod if you heard someone in your head, shake your head if you didn't? If you can't it's alright, we won't be angry with you."

Headshake. Headshake headshake headshake. Trembling.

For this she'll do the truthspell.

Truth?

Yup.

Thank Heaven.

"OK. I'm sorry. If you did it would be ok, we wouldn't be angry with you, it wouldn't be your fault, we'd want to get her to stop if she was hurting you..."

She doesn't uncurl. She's still trembling. Her breathing evens out just the slightest bit, maybe.

And questions can make things worse in ways they didn't predict...

"Ok. 

I can - keep trying to understand what hurt you, now, or I can try to help in some other way, or I can - go away again. All of those are alright.

Nod if you want me to stay and maybe try, shake your head if you want me to leave for now?"

Headshake headshake headshake. She tries to curl up tighter but it's not really physically possible.

"Ok. I'm sorry." She leaves.

It takes a while for her to calm down even a little.