In the bottom bunk of a bunk bed, there sleeps a grey. (In the top bunk of same there also sleeps a grey but the bottom one is more immediately relevant.)
Good for them. "More scrolls have to wait on Fëanáro but if you use mana and then expend it that's supposed to help build up capacity."
"And they're long years. But you don't sleep much, which might be a factor."
"Yeah. You will have to sleep every night."
"I do that anyway."
"How boring. Probably Materia will like you fine."
"Most members of our species sleep every night! Some get it down to almost every night but it's not very healthy."
"Bella's species is more like yours than like mine, I think. But I never asked very much about it because it was less interesting than the language and magic. But I think they had mean people who weren't Melkors and that is why she was scared of the King when she arrived and things."
"But it changes how things are for everyone if you have any. Like Bella thought she might get in trouble for appearing in the palace, even though she wasn't bad, because her species had bad people at all."
"Well, yes. But that's not usually what matters for whether there are bad people in a group. If anything it matters in the other direction, because being bad does not directly hurt the people who are bad."