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?)

Yep.

Reading more documentation to avoid missing things like this again.

Spending time with other family members as well as planning and such like.

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...

Hug.

She's had a break; she will try scrying the country Denice is from. 

It's... entirely unfamiliar. And large, and powerful.

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.

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...)

And they will all discuss plans and do various other work and watch for if Denice wakes up.

She does, after a long nap: she startles, looks around the room without moving, and nestles a little further back into the chair.

She'll come in again, quietly.

"Hey.

I'm really sorry, we should have known this earlier. In the place where you were before, if you let them know foods you liked, they used it to hurt you?

We're not going to do that, but you don't have to believe me, and I'm sorry to have done something that looked like we were doing that.

And it wasn't something bad you did to be upset, and we're not going to be mad at you for being upset."

She watches and listens, and when Heria's done talking, she shrugs, exhaustedly noncommittal, and then winces and, after a few moments' pause, extracts herself carefully from the chair. She pauses again when she stands, swaying slightly - it's not great to go this long on this little food, but she'll manage, she always does - and heads for the door; she stops well shy of what would be considered being near it and checks Heria's response to this.

She gets out of the way so Denice can walk through. 

She tenses up anyway, approaching closer, and stops again to steel herself before actually stepping through the doorway. Fortunately the restroom is nearby, and simple enough to get to that she remembers the instructions; she stops again outside the closed door.

If Denice doesn't open if for more than a few moments, she'll have her datahook get it to open.

She'll wait a minute.

She peers in. Are the facilities recognizable, at least?

They're not identical but there's a sink and the other thing is identifiable enough as the toilet-type-thing.

Close enough. In she goes, closing the door behind her.