"You should give yourself more credit," Sookie pointed out with a tilt of her head, brows furrowed as she shrugged. "I think that bein' practical is usually something that happens both with practice and necessity. So if you didn't have those assistants, maybe you'd have learned faster just because you had to."

She peered down at the chessboard, eyes wide and slightly apprehensive. "I mean, c'mon, you've got chess figured out backwards and forwards. Someone with that kinda brains has got to be able to learn how to pack and whatever else."