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[you can hear the ambient noise of a restaurant in the background.]

Well! Now that I've figured out how this device works, I should probably introduce myself. My name is Hans, Prince of the Southern Isles and fellow imPort. I've met some of you at the party-oh, let me just swap this to the video for a moment.

[And then, he fiddles for a moment and manages to turn the video on: Hans is sitting in what looks like a restaurant-decidedly not the Hard Rock Cafe (though the eagle-eyed viewer can catch the edges of the Hard Rock Cafe logo on his black work polo. He's broadcasting this from his lunch break.]

Is it working? It should be working. [He shrugs, waves at the camera, then clicks it back off, swapping to audio.]

Anyway, it's become more and more obvious to me that I know next to nothing about this land. So, I'd appreciate any knowledge about customs and traditions of America. I already know about your president, thanks to Nelson, but what about your courts, your military strength, what it takes to get married, things like that?

[why yes he deliberately picked that last topic, sorry not sorry Anna.]

Any information would be appreciated!

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So your mission was to raise my blood pressure? That's...[douchy?] well it's certainly revealing.

[Douchelord Chilton at your service.]

I would argue that it's well-earned, housemate.

Well-earned raised blood pressure. [a light chuckle.] I'm not entirely sure how to feel about that.

Probably not flattered.

[Is that overt hostility remaining? Why, yes, yes it is.

Someone's had some time to ponder over what exactly happened during that swear-in ceremony.]

Definitely not flattered.

[and yep, there's some hostility in his tone also.]

Ah. Well if you ever wish to discuss your issues with sensitivity...

Then I will choose someone other than you. Discussing issues that I may or may not have with a housemate? I think I'll pass.

But I'm a professional, which may be the very thing you need.

Certainly there are other professionals in the city.

Not imPort ones.

Who says I would need to see an imPort one?

Surely a prince deserves only the best care? Oh, no doubt the native qualities have their merit -- sure, of course. But no one is going to appreciate your experience as an imPort, save for another imPort.

Then it's a good thing I don't need psychiatric care, isn't it?

You might need to convince me of that, too.

[He's still perturbed.]

Really Chilton, I don't know what I did to make you think about me this way!

[bold faced liiiiiiie!]

Oh, come now, my prince. Don't sell yourself short.

I'm hardly selling myself short in this regard-I'm just confused.

Confusion doesn't suit you, then.

Tell me Chilton, why do you think I would need to see a psychiatrist?

[Oh, a corner. It wouldn't do to outright accuse the man of certain personality disorders (he had so little evidence, after all, even if the doctor knew what he wanted</>i> Hans to suffer from). Time to maneuver.]

Your difficulties, coming out here, are magnified. Most of us have experienced worlds similar to this one, but you've had to adapt abnormally quickly to circumstance wholly unrelated to your previous experiences. It would, at the very least, be stressful. At the most it would prove traumatic.

And yet I've been doing fine so far. [but really, he hasn't. It's been more like navigating a maze where the lights go out: not impossible, but goddamn annoying and aggravating as all hell.]

I'll grant you stressful, but traumatic? That's reaching, don't you think?

How can you be sure? Are you convinced that you aren't suffering any shock?

I'm sure that others would have pointed it out to me if I was suffering shock.

You can't place that degree of trust into some vague concept of others. Only professionals.

I have a feeling your definition of 'professionals' is more narrow than most.

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