Awww.  Mewtwo-and-Mew should have all of the soft things they want.  "You're welcome."

This place is much better than where we--I--was before. But you should get to have an outside.

"It does have its upsides.  And I can show you to one of the gardens, some time.  Preferably in the early morning when there are fewer people.  It might be a good way to get used to them."

Yes. I don't--if the people here aren't zombies and won't hurt me I don't want to be afraid of them.

They nod.  "We can go to a garden tomorrow morning.  And later today, would you mind if we have someone come over?  They're really good at talking to people and not being scary, and you'll still be able to go into your room if you get overwhelmed."

Okay. That sounds good.

It's still pretty early in the day, so that won't be for a while yet.  Verity-and-Araeneve keep odd hours, but most people are busy now.  Verity sends a message on her own phone to their friend.  

At some point, they begin to prepare food.  Vegetables and rice and a simple sauce, all prepared separately in case Mewtwo only likes one of the components, though Verity's own plate has them mixed together.  

Mewtwo tries all the things carefully and then decides she likes them all together fine. 

That's good.  

Verity-and-Araeneve wind up going to bed not long afterwards - their schedule is nocturnal as the fleet measures time, and they want to be awake for most of the afternoon today.  Mewtwo-and-Mew are left to their own devices, though shown how to set up the VR headsets and adjust them to their head sizes.  It's a bit heavy for Mew, since they don't have ones on hand for tiny daemons, but muscles can presumably be assisted with telekinesis.  Verity-and-Araeneve have a decent collection of programs in the genre of 'walk around pretty locations and solve puzzles for keys that unlock more puzzles', which seem like they might be calming and distracting.  

Mewtwo-and-Mew turn out to love walking around pretty places solving puzzles.

It's a pretty popular genre here.  Even if they decide to spend the entire day on it, they won't get through more than a fraction.  There are also some other programs like art or building or racing vehicles, though Verity has fewer of those kinds.

Eventually, Verity comes back out of her room.  She prepares what is breakfast by her standards or an early dinner by fleet time, and types on her phone the entire time.  Once again she has about a dozen messages.  She puts most of them off for later tonight.

"Azure will come by in about an hour," she says.  "And we've received some news about the lab - the police found it, but the scientists had already left and gotten some of the machines out, too.  What's left and the lab itself are now being guarded and dusted for fingerprints and such.  They have people working on figuring out the machines left behind, and more out looking for the scientists."