A groan sounded in the silence of the room before a shuffling of blankets. Kendall turned over in her bed, facing away from the window to hide her face from the beaming sunlight. Morning came too soon for the bartender, and no matter what, she always woke up before eleven. She blamed Sookie, partly, who was a morning person. When that girl was up stirring around with their Gran, it always woke Kendall.

"Ken! Wake up! You're supposed to run into Shreveport with me today!" Sookie called from the hallway. Kendall wished she could sleep with her door closed. It might have helped with prolonging her slumber, but ever since moving into Gran's house, she hadn't ever been able to sleep with it shut.

"I'm awake," Kendall muttered.

"Then come down and eat breakfast." The sleepy woman sighed and then pushed the blankets back, shivering at the drafty room. The old Stackhouse home had been around since the early 1800s and while it had been remodeled a bit and had several minor fix-it projects, it still got drafty in the morning and evenings and stuffy during summer days. Gran never did install an air conditioner – no matter how much Jason begged when he lived there.

Kendall pulled her robe over her shorts pajama set and slid her feet into her slippers before making her way downstairs to join her sister and grandmother. "Mornin' Gran," she said, pausing in the living room where the two ladies were sitting and paying attention to some news program.

"Mornin' hon," Gran said, petting the cat perched in her lap. Kendall kissed her grandmother's head and reached over to pet Tina.

"Vampires are out of the coffin!" Sookie exclaimed with a wide grin.

"What?" Kendall paused her trek to the sofa, and stared at her sister. "What do you mean?"

"It's terrifying, Sookie," Gran said softly.

"Gran, they're announcing so they can mainstream into society with humans and co-exist with us. I knew they were real!" Sookie's eyes never left the television. Kendall also lost herself in the news story that explained that thanks to a Japanese breakthrough on the invention of synthetic blood the "Vampire Authority" would allow the vampire race to enter society and be known to the public instead of continuing to hide. The synthetic blood would sustain the vampires, thereby deeming it unnecessary to feed on humans and make it easy to live in plain sight. The whole story was completely creepy.

While Sookie and Kendall always had a suspicion of other species thanks to their…"defect", Kendall would have never guessed that one would actually come out to the world and want to live among humans. It seemed like a very dangerous proposal.

"So, have they been living out in Japan, then?" Kendall asked.

"They must have been for the Tru Blood invention to even happen. I wonder how many live in Bon Temps." Sookie asked, finally tossing a grin at her grandmother. Gran shook her head. Kendall finally rose from the sofa and strode toward the kitchen. Her stomach turned a bit with the news of the "Great Revelation" and she wasn't sure she could hold down any food. Gran was right. This was a terrifying idea to take in.