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[The first few second of video is an awkwardly angled shot of a very tired, very pretty blonde woman, clearly trying to work through how to use her damn phone. She looks like she's recently been through the wringer, face a mess of healing scrapes and a few shadowy bruises. So, she's just not here for any kinda crap today, phone. Behave.]

Oh lord, I’ve never been good at this computer stuff. What is- oh, eeugh.

[Sookie finally gets a good look at herself in the camera, and that angle is doing nothing for her, yikes. She takes a moment to adjust the angle, until she’s satisfied that she looks actually presentable to strangers and not a damn mess like she’s been for the past week.]

I’m Sookie, ah, Sookie Stackhouse. I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be so scattered, I’m just a little overwhelmed right now, if you can understand. [She frowns, a little embarrassed at herself. Get a grip, Sook, it’s just a camera.] Ah, so, I’d really really like to know about churches around anywhere? I’m Methodist, but I’m no stranger to a Baptist service, or any of those big nondenominational-

[And then for just a moment, the Fellowship of the Sun flashes across her mind’s eye, and her stomach lurches. No. No megachurches.]

Actually, no, just small congregations are fine for me.

Also, they're telling me that I've got to be on some TV show called, ah.....[She takes a moment to look at something scribbled onto her palm.] Virginia Lakeshore? Anyone know anything about that? How would I wiggle my way out of that, exactly?

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Alright, someone else told me that, but I'm still not too clear. Why? I'm just some girl from rural Louisiana, why am I special? I'm no one compared to movie stars, or whatever.

[Well, no, she is but absolutely no one needs to know that. Back home, once it got out to the wrong kind of people ("people") her life changed for the worse, kinda. Honestly, she's convinced that getting dragged here is an extension of that trouble back home. It fits the pattern nicely.]

["I'm just some girl" sounds like an alarm, more "I am actually really special for a reason that I keep close to my chest, people might DIE if they knew, it's tragic" but that's because Will's been around a while. He's seen patterns in the Porter, and one of them is that rarely, if never, is anyone picked normal. Rarely is anyone no one. For good or bad, most of them have Some Thing Different that makes them stand out.

But he nods along like he totally understands this feeling of being Normal And Southern And Definitely Not Special.]

You're from another rural Louisiana, for one thing. People find that interesting. [Oh you come from another world? That is not something everyone can say.] You've got abilities now, too. Movie stars don't have those without lots of behind the scenes effort.

[Look sir, you don't have to read her for filth like that.]

Abilities? Oooh, maybe I can fly now, or serve beer extra fast. I bet that would be fun to watch on tv.

[Oh look, she's fallen into this sarchasm, help.

To be fair, Sookie didn't actually read the file they gave her, so if she's got any more powers on top of her brain thing, she doesn't know. She really doesn't want to. Once Sam gets here she'll be passing it off straight to him for safekeeping, or burning, or whatever he wants to do. She knows herself, and she knows that one night she'll get real curious and that'll be that. So, Sam. She trusts him implicitly as it is.]

Sorry, I'm sorry, I don't mean to be ugly. This is just...a lot to take in.

[Huh. A nonbeliever? Maybe she isn't like Sam, then, or just knows being like Sam is not normal and is puffing out this whole super normal front.

Still, Will gives her A Look as if he can't believe what he's just heard. Part of him can't, actually, rarely do imPorts come in from his area and he honestly is still getting used to it. Usually he only hears be ugly from the locals. So that's nice, what a refreshing Sookie.]

It is. A lot to take in. You aren't ugly at all. [ain't no lie] There are worse reactions to have.

[Sookie has a lifetime of putting up a front of normal for the sake of everyone else's comfort. It comes second nature at this point. The idea that people are eager for her differences doesn't help at all. She knows from experience, even when people want you to read minds to help them, they really don't. Not really. It's human nature- your head is the one place you can be yourself, and intruders are against the nature of things.

Well, time to figure out some fake powers, she supposes.]

Oh, I can imagine there are. l I got the worst out when I first got here though. Made a big scene and everything. Real ladylike of me.

[Go for some good ones, Sookie. Be the demigoddess of a warrior planet in the Sigma Alpha Phi Phi Apple Pie Galaxy, half tiger half goddess half princess all badass. Go nuts.]

What kinda scene did you make?

[Oh no it's the comforting level tone most associated with Dadhood.]

Oh lord, I think I cried for an hour straight in front of a bunch of strangers.

[They didn't seem to care, which was almost worse than anything. ]

It's been kind of a trying winter for me. I wish I could say this is the worst thing that's happened in the last few months.

[She shrugs, tired and resigned to the never ending shitshow she calls her life. Honestly, all she wants right now is to find a bed and sleep for a week.]

[An eyebrow lifts, a sign of spiking interest. And then, softly:]

That's why you're [special] here, chosen over movie stars and whatever.

[That's why you're here.

Well then, if it's like that then she knows exactly why she's here. Maybe the last year, maybe, but it's her disability once again. It's always her disability.

Sook feels kind of stupid for not getting there faster, not working it out by herself when everything was so obviously staring her in the face. She'd been too caught up in all of her "Why me?" to consider why. She flushes, a little embarrassed, a little ashamed.]

Yeah. I would be all that, wouldn't it?

It's a common thread. [He pulls a face, not quite cringing, but almost. A sort of what can you do when the shit happens look.] We might be just some nobodies from rural Louisiana, but the world around us is not.

[vampires and shifters, cannibals, whatevs]

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