Yes, she can walk through walls.

Very good.

Weird hands, then. Adding more fingers seems like it'll do the opposite of help but an extra thumb might not hurt.... yeah, doesn't hurt; doesn't help very much, though.

She runs through the book's suggestions, trying everything with a low enough value to be safe; the best of the lot is a set of claws that don't let her do much but do let her reliably do what they can do, which might be useful sometimes but it's a pretty niche sometimes.

Oh, well.

Meanwhile, Winona fixes the soup and eventually presents Denice with a bowlful.

Has Winona been up to anything interesting today?

"I pitched tackling the institution to my boss today, but she'll take a while to get back to me."

It's something, anyway.

"Things can move pretty slowly in my sphere, sorry to say." Mmm soup. "I bought a little chocolate cake on the way home for us."

There's that deer-in-headlights freeze, again, for just a moment.

Okay.

"...not a chocolate fan?"

No. Sort of. Institution stuff.

"Say the word and I'll eat the whole cake," says Winona, winking.

Maybe that.

"Alrighty. Maybe not all at once, I can magic away pounds but not so much the icky feeling of an entire miniature chocolate cake." She cuts herself a quarter of the cake when she's done with her soup.

Denice makes no move to have any, but does grin a little at Winona having some.

Om nom nom. Winona sets about clearing their dishes. "You find everything you were looking for in the library?"

Pretty much. There's a third dictionary that they didn't have that she wants to look at. Everything else, though.

"It'll be returned in the next couple weeks, I bet. If you remind me on the weekend I can go with you and put it on hold but you're using Julie's card so I don't think that works for you alone."

Okay.

"You wanna see what they've got in the way of movies on Netflix?"

Yeah, that sounds good.

Winona locates Mulan and causes it to appear on the television and puts a wing around Denice.

Cuddles are great. Mulan's pretty great, too.

Yes and yes!

Then Winona's brother calls her and she takes the phone call in her and Julie's room.

Denice is not at a loss for ways to occupy herself.

Next day is a Saturday, so Winona's home when Denice wakes up, having the second quarter of the cake after a sandwich for lunch (Denice's is waiting in the fridge). Winona asks Denice if she'd like Winona to get ahold of a lawyer to help with adopting her.