Denice is in speech therapy. Today is pretty much like any other day. She repeats random syllables back to the therapist, as usual.
Shen arrives into the entrance hall.
I'm here.
Gets a summary of what's been happening.
I - she doesn't usually not tell me at all, when she does something. I - don't want to ask...
She agrees with respect to not asking; if this is their Acquaintance's - work, again then she will, it can be assumed, let them know when she wishes to, and if it is not then said Acquaintance does not need to be given information about - generally anyone, but certainly extra vulnerable people.
And the person is here, either way.
"I've called my friend to come here," she says, more for the tone, now. "She won't hurt you either."
She comes in in the same careful-to-be-nonthreatening way. Reaches out senses. It doesn't seem likely the arrival is a mage or otherwise, but it's worth the check.
The language is - hard to draw, even harder then she'd expect from someone who was the only speaker around.
"Hello. My name is Shen. I'm not going to hurt you. I'd like to help you. Are you alright?" she says, in the arrival's language.
There's a brief pause, like she's thinking about it, and then she shrugs.
"The food and the water are for you, if you want them. You don't have to take them, but you can if you would like."
She tenses up again, just slightly, when Shen mentions the food, and again doesn't move immediately when she stops talking, but then she takes the food bar, takes a bite, and goes back to listening while she chews.
She tries to look 'that is very alright to do!' without also looking 'this is what you have to do to make me happy' but this may be a challenge on several fronts.
"Is there anything else you want or need right now?"
She really doesn't like being looked at that way. Her objection is nearly as subtle as the rest of the times she's tensed up, but definitely there.
She shrugs again.
She notices. She returns to a more neutral expression.
They can't really offer her reading material, given the language barrier.
"Do you like video?" she gestures at a screen on the wall.
She looks though her datahook for some variety in things that don't require language. Throws a selection - a dance, some scenic nature, a 'how it's made' of some clothes, a sporting event - onto the screen in a grid.
"Would you like to watch any of these? You can point. You can change your mind later, if you want."
"If you'd like to watch one of the others, you can change them like this." She demonstrates the remote. "You can also pause, or start it again, or turn it off and on, or make it louder or quieter. You can also tell us you need something." She demonstrates all these buttons. They have symbols on them but the symbols may not be ones familiar to her. (If the arrival looks confused or unsure she can demonstrate a few more times.)
She's still watching attentively, not giving any sign of whether she understands or not.
Repeated demonstration has diminishing returns, and it might be clearer to the arrival if she can play around with it a little too. After a few demonstrations she puts the remote on the table and steps away.
She takes it - not hesitantly, exactly, but with repeated glances at Shen to check for a disapproving reaction - and examines it for a moment before pressing a button, apparently at random.
Well, a random one. But the one to select the next show, as it turns out.
She glances at the TV when the show changes, but she's not really watching it, she's watching Shen.
Shen isn't really doing anything. If the arrival doesn't seem actively upset she'll go sit down with Heria.
She's not upset. (See how not upset she is? She's perfectly calm. The calm of someone who has lots of practice at it.)
After a minute, she puts the remote down on the table and begins watching the TV.
She knows that one. But, not something that can just be fixed by some simple operation.
She'll wait a minute or two.