video;

[shifting]

[there's a frazzled shapeshifter on your screens today, imPorts. He rubs a hand against his mouth and the scruff of his chin awkwardly, like he's going to make an effort to collect his thoughts - then promptly throws that plan out the window.]

Hey, uh. Sorta a specific question, but has anyone ever... lost track of a day and shown up at the Porter? With somethin' changed? Is that just - somethin' that happens on top of all the other weird shit this place does to a person?

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[shifting]

Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay. Just - gettin' my bearings back. Porter's not big on warnings. M'sure you know how that is.

[viced]

Yeah.

[ A pause, and he looked away from the camera. ] I sure do.

It kind of screws with you, but eventually... you kind of get used to it.

[shifting]

You don't really make that sound appealing.

[viced]

Is there anything about being kidnapped and trapped in an alternate universe that is appealing?

[shifting]

The company's not half bad.

[viced]

Well --

[ A beat. ] Now, I'm not saying I don't agree, but... that's how they start you out on Stockholm syndrome.

[shifting]

[Sam shrugs.]

I'll take it over gnawin' my leg off. Less to clean up after.

[viced]

What the --

Fuck?

[shifting]

...Sorry, it's a joke. Meant it like how animals gnaw their legs off gettin' out of traps.

Politics got you a little high strung?

[viced]

Hey, I don't know what kind of world you're from, but some of them are fucked up. I'd believe it from some of them.

[ A pause. ]

But yeah, you could say that. I'm...running for Senate, it's getting rough out there.

[shifting]

We've got to get you on that day in the woods pretty soon here then.

[viced]

That sounds like you think I work too much.

[ He says, with a laugh. ]

Which is probably right.

I'll have to clear my schedule, maybe in a few weeks?

[shifting]

I do. But that's sorta part 'n parcel for bein' in politics, way I understand it.

[he nods.]

Whenever your schedule opens. I'll work around it. Things are gonna be quiet for me for a while yet.