There's an alley surrounded by buildings of stone, metal, and wood. The pavement is stone and very uneven. The air smells of foul things that aren't just garbage or sewage. The alley connects two larger streets where pointy-eared humanoids with brightly colored hair walk or ride flying constructs. There's a sign with a picture of a person in red armor and a caption in an unfamiliar alphabet.
Blai could totally stay awake for 24 hours from now if he needed to! He's done things like that before! Some demons have darkvision or they can light up the night and spend all of it attacking! It's sunrise he needs! Yes, yes, sleep vocabulary, sure.
Well, it buys him some time to think!
Wow, thinking is terrible and he hates it! He will do his best to go to sleep instead. Dawn will wake him, or something that is sort of but not quite dawn will wake him, or it won't, it's in Iomedae's hands.
Oh thank Iomedae. ... Sarenrae?? Is Sarenrae partial to the one sun or is she a suns-in-general kind of - irrelevant! Spells!
An hour later he is prepared to face the day! He opens the door, leaving his bag and its contents (now including his mail and mace) behind.
"...food riots, I hope," someone is saying as he and another person trade off helping each other get their armor on.
"And lose our best excuse to shoot people and take cute prisoners?"
"...like there's anyone who'd treat her any better," someone says, and three people laugh.
"...think a sage is gonna help us?" someone sort of obliquely watching him is saying. "A moss-for-brains statue-fucker who dumped out his subspace pack for a bunch of slummers? 'Sides. The Precursors're dead anyway."
"Shut it, he's probably just pretending not to understand."