This is really bizarre. 

Somewhere isolated that refused network-connection? (She sends Marchess some updated information and questions.)

And, not the most immediate concern, however. ...they've shown themselves to not always be good about public warding; any medical records that might show her? (She's not optimistic, again. It's obviously not good if anyone sufficiently good at scrying can find someone's birth announcement just from being near said person, but medical records are quite a step up in seriousness. But she'll make the attempt.)

She can absolutely get Denice's medical records.

(There's kind of a lot of them, too. Apparently whatever 'treatment' they were doing to her counts.)

Oh, great.

She 'looks' through them. 

They seem to be under the impression that training her like a dog is the only way to get anything done. And not even the sort of dog training that starts with the assumption that dogs are smart enough to figure things out; the kind that assumes that they have to be rewarded or punished every step of the way.

They weren't shy with the punishments, either; a few years ago it became illegal for them to use some of the methods they had been - playing loud noises at her when she misbehaved, or spraying unpleasant-tasting chemicals in her mouth, or slapping her hands - and they used them right up to the very last day it was legal.

They don't know that she can read. They aren't entirely sure whether she understands when they talk. Apparently it's been ambiguous.

...

...what where they trying to 'train' her to do, anyway?

(Trying not to let their body language show any of their feelings so as not to scare Denice stopped being a very good solution at some point. She's been fading it instead - magic to make it unnoticed).

Act normal. Act happy. Not flap her hands, or fidget. Stay in her seat. Be quiet. Make eye contact. Talk - not 'talk about what she wants to', but 'give the correct scripted responses to questions'. Follow instructions, including very arbitrary instructions.

They got some actual education in there, too, but the records say she's at least five years behind compared to what they'd expect of a normal child her age.

...

(Her self thinks she needs to help anyone and everyone this is happening to, right now.

This is of course not very practical. That of course doesn't make it less anything else.)

...anything else in the records?

They have in fact been keeping track of her nutrition and weight - they want her hungry enough that food is a compelling reward, but not malnourished enough to be in danger.

She has ever seen a doctor - it seems like she gets a fairly perfunctory and entirely nonmagical yearly checkup, which hasn't picked up on the heart problem or joint issues.

There are records of her having been drugged, restrained, and/or sent to seclusion for 'agitation' and 'noncompliance'. (Again, no mention of magic being used in any way.)

She was admitted to White Willow when she was five, with a diagnosis of... some word she's not familiar with... with intellectual disability.

Oh, is that why they're doing it wonderful.

And didn't care to pick up on anything else looks like. And yes they seem all around unwilling to pay mages to bother with their charges, here. Though at the least doesn't look like they were using any magic against the kids either. That's - nowhere near enough, but. Better than the alternative.

She pushes on her self to continue to do practical things rather than less useful things-in-the-genre-of-screaming.

And - if they don't even ward their medical records can she get any more less general-public-facing materials? 

Yep.

In fact it seems like they don't ward anything whatsoever.

Well, it's not like she has any good opinion of them to lose but she can think poorly of them in this area as well as think - horribly - of them in others.

Scrying, scrying. Anything more about Denice? About the 'Asylum' in general?

Admission records, financial records relating to her care, general notes about her behavior, logs of recreational activities (she watches a lot of TV, and is read to by one of the other children fairly often; she occasionally plays games or makes art, but not regularly; she doesn't seem to get much physical activity, or ever go outside), a few random notes about room changes and staff interactions and such; a detailed report of an incident some months ago where she successfully hid part of her lunch a few times, got staff to replace it, and passed the food along to another resident later. (She was, of course, punished when she was caught, and separated from the kid she'd helped.)

The asylum doesn't ward its own records, either, and keeps plenty of them. Anything Shen wants to look for is available; not just things relating to the children kept there, but staff records, payroll, administrative notes...

(Bless/goodness, Denice...) (She squeezes Shen's hand again.)

That is very bizarre. 

She restrains herself from beginning to form more theories; better to wait till she has more information about something like their government and such.

She will skim through for anything else that seems strongly or immediately relevant to information about Denice and what she might need, and note the rest to investigate later.

A list of dietary restrictions has her, and several other children, down as being on a finger-food diet; there's nothing else of particular interest.

Any indication if this is a punishment or manipulation type restriction, or something else?

None of the other things on the list seem to be punishments, at least to casual reading, and food-based rewards and punishments are listed elsewhere in her paperwork; it's probably something else.

Alright. (Well, of course they have a section for it...)

What else is on the list?

Food restrictions, mostly: some of the children are allergic to peanuts, or fish, or eggs, and there's a smattering of other allergies listed; some are on special diets, with the type of diet noted in the list and the diets' restrictions listed at the end; a few are on a type of restriction that's described with a word Denice doesn't know, which isn't explained.

Alright. She recalls the pencils; having thought of it takes another look at records for any other mention of related things. 

(She messages the updated food-needs information to Laeres.)

- yep, her motor skills are pretty bad. They've tried to work with her on it, but for this, at least, they didn't push when it didn't seem to help.

Well, preferable to the alternative. (She vaguely wonders how they make decisions about what to 'value' forced performance of; not that that's in any way of general high importance.)

Anything like metrics? And, any more things of similar sorts they should be keeping in mind?

She mostly has trouble with small things; she can hold thick crayons or markers but not regular ones, for example, though she's not very good with them in any case. The notes here also explain why she's on the finger food diet: she can't use utensils well enough to avoid making a mess, even if they're thickened so that she can hold them.

Heria pulls up where she can feed this into her datahook to get appropriate further product recommendations and the like. She doesn't suppose they tried any kinds of typing or other such things?

(And, how is Denice doing meanwhile?)