"Makes sense."

"And acquire a better stimulant than coffee, which I will consume when I'm ready to leave so I don't waste any of it," she says, gesturing to the pill and the glass of water.

"I'd been wondering what that was but it did look like it might be a pill so I wasn't going to ask in case it was personal."

"It is a pill, but it's just a stimulant, nothing personal."

"Lovely idea, but a bit difficult to manage."

"But sleep is such a waste of time!"

"Your body does important things while you're sleeping! And dreaming is fun."

"My dreams aren't that great, and I could squeeze all the dreams I want into an hour every day or two."

"Well, if you manage to figure out how to reduce your need for sleep to an hour every two days, kudos."

"I can cut down the need for sleep with meditation, but then I have to meditate. Which I'm really supposed to do but it's so boring, that is literally the point is to be boring."

"Why are you supposed to be doing something the point of which is boringness?"

"Because it's a vaguely spiritual activity and it is supposed to help me do other vaguely spiritual things. But hey, I managed the controlled Avatar State without going into the uncontrolled version first, I think I'm doing all right."

"And boringness is spiritual. Got it."

"Boringness is the most spiritual."

"I'm glad my powers don't have anything to do with spirituality, then, I have a religion but it doesn't require gratuitous boringness from me."

"Yeah? What kind of spirits have you got that are not boring? Nor, I hope, supervolcanoes."

"Not spirits, exactly. I'm a monotheist."

"Sort of. 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me,' is the First Commandment."

"...This is not the kind of religion with which I am familiar."

shrug. "Different universes."

"Yeah, I'm getting that. So instead of spirits you have one god. Is it nice? Spirits are mostly kind of orthogonal to human morality but some of them are pretty nice."

"It's pretty nice! They seem to have roughly human-compatible morality, the rest of the Commandments are things like don't steal, don't kill, respect your parents, stuff like that."

"Okay. But if there's only one why does it even need to... you know, bother... telling people not to 'have' any others?"