"Is that really a job you can retire from?" Sookie asks briefly, more rhetorical than anything else as she sits herself down in the offered chair, snorting lightly at the push from Kisuke's bare foot. He is, in more ways than not, a contrast to all the men she'd grown up with and around.

"You know, no one's ever really asked me that question. About my potential. I think people kind of assumed from early on that I wasn't someone with a lot of it, 'cause I couldn't focus and I was always hearing things, and for the longest time no one knew why," she says, frowning, tapping the end of the straw against her lip. "It's why I didn't do well in school. Try concentrating when you've got twenty-some other kids yammering about in your head. All I know's that I'm not the most ambitious girl around, but... the exception's in learning how to protect myself. And other people. I'd like to live up to my potential there."