"And they give a really smooth ride, moreso than my roc can, but that takes some of the fun out of it for me."

"Flying with magnetism is pretty smooth by default, but you can do a lot of midair jinks and stuff."

"I'm curious what it looks like but you said you can't do it here."

"And I'm not wearing enough metal right now to do it the other way."

"How much do you need?"

"Enough to support my body comfortably so I'm not just hanging from my wrists and ankles or floating on a thin enough layer that I'm worried it'll tear and dump me on the ground. It's not a hard line, the more there is the easier it is, and honestly I'm too tired to want to do it right now anyway."

"That's fair. If you want to go home and take a nap I won't stop you."

"Unfortunately, my shift doesn't end for another couple of hours. I'm using Milliways time-folding to take a break and get off my feet for a bit."

"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."