"Every night."

"Have you considered magic lights?"

"We have them! Permanent magic streetlights everywhere, it reduces crime when we studied it," he says proudly. "But it messes people up for it to be bright all the time."

"Humans also need to sleep on a daily basis and this is easier in the dark, remember how thick I wanted the curtains in my house?"

"Yeah. That's so much sleeping, though."

"I heard you hate sleeping."

"You don't?"

"I wouldn't sleep if I didn't have to but I wouldn't say I hate it."

"Huh."

"- surprising? I hated more things when I was a child."

"Did you hate sleep?"

"Maybe but it would've been very far down any list I gave you."

Nod.

"I hate the Valar and not being taken seriously and sleep and Materia. And slavery."

"When I was little I hated my half-siblings and their mothers and many of my tutors and most of the rules I had to follow and devils and demons and Pharasma."

"- how did you wind up with tutors you didn't like? That seems relatively easy to fix."

"It was really hard to find people who knew all the languages I wanted to learn and many of them were lousy at teaching it. Or thought they spoke it better than they in fact did. Also all theology tutors are fundamentally disappointing, intellectually."

"Okay, I guess that makes sense."

"My children had a better education."

"Fëanáro has claimed he wants to have ten."

"I guess since he's immortal that might work. I wanted to - have time for each of them individually instead of having them frantically competing for scraps of my attention."

"How many did you have?"

"Seven. One wife."

"That's still kind of a lot but it is admittedly fewer than ten. What's your wife like?"

Glowing. "She's very smart. We met through my tutor in sculpture and architecture - she'd petitioned for enrollment in Sothis's school of architecture and infrastructure, and been rejected of course, and he thought it was a loss and mentioned it to me."