TV: she watches it. (And glances over at Shen every once in a while, still.)

This can - serve as a local resting state for the moment, then.

More applied magical sense-work works better if she can be closer, or touch, but she's not doing that. She has a spellframe for enhancement. She holds it; she focuses into the new arrival.

Invisible injuries and the like (especially dangerous ones)? Other information that might give information as to her origin? Anything generally unusual? (How old does she look, by the way?) Greater specifics on the malnutrition? ('literally just starved' vs 'not given enough to eat for a while', etc; lack of particular nutrients)?

She looks to be about twelve, maybe thirteen - probably thirteen, in fact, given the malnutrition. She has a couple minor injuries - her left arm, where she jarred it falling earlier, and a bruise on the opposite leg - but no major ones. Her joints are in poor shape, though, in a way that suggests a congenital condition, and she has a heart murmur, mild enough that it won't be affecting her, but still a little concerning. It seems like she's hasn't had enough to eat for a long time, possibly her entire life; she's a little low on protein - on the low side of normal, not enough to be cause for significant concern - but otherwise she's suspiciously well-off in terms of nutrients.

Given lack of acute emergency she will currently refrain from offering magical painkillers or further magical medicine - they don't seem to have a good level of preference communication they can rely on at the moment, and 'and now I'll do some magic on you' would be a common thing for potential fraughtness. 

That is - not a good sign. And also indication that while L might still be involved, this is not a matter of her as the be-all. 

She passes the information to Heria. The arrival is not under illusions; she takes the information of her appearance and sense of presence and sends an (encrypted) message to Marchess. May have been spending life in some sort of no-one-should-have-to; can you find anything? Feeds the nutrition information into her datahook and tells it to send Laeres a shopping request for more personalized food bars and the like.

Including the sense-work this should all take more than a few minutes - how is the arrival doing?

The TV is doing a pretty good job of holding her interest.

Alright, give that some time before they possibly start asking distressing questions. 

She checks every communication method she has for anything from L (nothing). She and Heria silently go over emergency services procedures in case she is - called away and then something happens; plan coordination of things like Laeres and the children coming back; check their respective schedules and the like to be able to begin coordination if needed. Discuss whether she should try scrying (not at the moment; wait a little in case L does reach out after all).

And, how's the arrival?

Keeping an eye on them, but still mostly watching the TV.

They consult some more. Remaining in the living room is probably better than trying to move, for now. What else might she want or need in the short term? (Tesse, of course, knits, but that might not be safe without precautions if Shen might have to suddenly leave). 

"I'll be right back," she says (with Shen's instruction on how to say this in the right language). Leaves. Comes back some minutes later with a writing tablet, some hand-held puzzles, а building toy kit, some pretty paper and drawing utensils, and some napkin-or-handkerchief looking things.  

She takes the items, puts them on the table one by one.

"These are for you if you want them. This can be for writing or drawing, and these you can play with in your hands, and this you can build with, and this you can draw on or fold, and these you can fold or tie in knots. Or other things you want to do with them. If you want to. You can also just leave them here, if you don't, or put them down, or pick them up later."

She examines the items, one at a time. She seems confused at the tablet, and sets it aside, followed by the paper; she nudges the pencils over to join the pile rather than picking them up. She lingers briefly over the fabric scraps, feeling the texture of them, but leaves them where they are and instead takes a few blocks from the building kit to hold while she watches TV.

That is hopefully good to some extent, then. 

Should have explained the tablet. Won't pick it up to do that now, by default they're not taking anything they've given her back in any way unless they really need to. She sets the tablet to playing a basic 'how to use me' - you can draw/write with the attached pen or some different pen-like thing or your finger! You can save something you did like this! You can clear like this! You can turn if off, turn it on, lock or unlock the surface.

She notices the pencil nudging, remembers Shen noting the joints. Also notices the fabric-touching.

"I'll be right back again." 

She comes back with some better-for-holding drawing utensils and more fabric scraps of different kinds, puts them on the table.

She is prepared to explain the new items and say another 'for you if you want them'.

She watches the tablet play its tutorial. When Heria comes back with the utensils, she looks to Shen, confused and concerned and a little overwhelmed.

That was a worry, and a hard thing to balance against providing her with what might be needed.

"I'm sorry, this must be really overwhelming. These are also for you, if you want them. The pens can be easier to hold for some people. You can look at them at your own time, if you want, or just keep watching the video. They're not going to go anywhere and there's no hurry, and you don't have to look at them at all if you don't want to or it's hard."

(She's worse at this kind of thing than Heria, but she does know it and she can do it and it's not very practical to try to hand over talking to Heria given the language barrier. (And Heria is right here, if that ends up needed).)

That doesn't actually help.

She looks away as her breathing goes ragged, tensing for whatever might happen next - she's terrified; she's still making a very good attempt to minimize the signs of it, but quickly losing that battle.

Her self helpfully lets her know that this is bad and not a thing she should be allowing to happen in front of her and she needs to do something about it right now.

This is, of course, not very helpful. She's also of course rather used to it, and making her brain continue being actually useful is an entirely familiar use of it. (None of this will show on her externally more than very slightly.)

She can tell, reaches out to take Shen's hand. 

Let me do it?

Sitting, nonthreatening body language, careful tone, Shen feeds her words. (Having done prayers in other languages looks like it gives her some experience in pronouncing them right despite not knowing them herself. She is glad, for that.)

"We're not going to hurt you. If we've done something that hurts you we're sorry and we'd want to stop. No one here is going to hurt you. It's alright to be afraid of things but no one here is going to hurt you..."

She curls in on herself, flopping sideways onto the arm of the couch, when Heria starts talking.

It takes a few minutes for her words to register, and longer for them to have any real effect, but eventually the girl calms. She doesn't uncurl, makes no attempt to wipe away the tears drying on her cheeks, but opens her eyes to peer confusedly at her - there's no hope in her face, but there is a little less fear.

No one is going to attempt to make her uncurl or try to obligate her to do something about tears.

"...We're not going to hurt you. If someone tries to come hurt you we're not going to let them..."

She closes her eyes again and tries to relax.

(She very much wants a hug, right now, but no matter how nice they're being, these adults are staff, and you don't hug staff, not voluntarily. It'd destroy her, in the end, to let them in like that, even for a moment. The thought doesn't even cross her mind.)

She has some amount of emotion-and-such senses which she could turn on the arrival if she wanted to, but she isn't doing that - not an uncommon thing to have very bad experiences with, that, and they're definitely not at a point where she might ask and get an answer she could rely on to use. Outside of that, neither of them are mind-readers.

(And may be somewhat miscalibrated, on this - of the trauma they've been closest to and seen most, touch being very fraught at best is disproportionally common. Not something they'd be looking into as an immediate.)

They continue their best not to do anything threatening.

Well. She'll move when they tell her to, open her eyes when they seem to want her attention again. For now, this is... 'nice' would be a stretch. Fine. It's fine.