Leareth notices, gives him a concerned look. :What is it?: 

I don't think the SIlmarils could do that. Not at this distance. Might be the Valar. I'm sending someone to go check with them. If it's not them I have no idea what it is.

:It looks like a moon. Velgarth has one, though I am not sure how it would work with a flat world – our moon is a large ball of rock, like a smaller world, that floats in circles around Velgarth itself: 

Oh. That's what it looks like? ...I don't really know what I was imagining. The Valar told us they were going to do a sun and a moon by having Maiar tug the surviving fruits of Laurelin and Telperion around the sky. But it's so big and bright...

:It is! It is very helpful for human vision. ...I wonder if that means there will be a first sunrise soon. Sunrise is very beautiful, in my homeland: Leareth finds himself hoping that there is and that he's awake for it and can watch Maitimo's face as he witnesses it. 

Maitimo is staring at him with a complicated mix of emotions on his face. I'd like that.

:I am not sure how moonrise and sunrise will be timed here – they are not fixed relative to one another in Velgarth, sometimes the moon and sun are up at the same time, but for a first moonrise here, they might end up opposite each other. Assuming they have the sun ready yet, though if they are both fruits of the Trees then it ought to be. I might try to sleep now, since this will be nighttime, but - would you wake me if the horizon starts to look brighter at all?: 

Yes. I can do that.

Leareth nods and heads back in the direction of his room. 

He sits there, watching the moon rise. 

It's pretty.

Leareth lies awake for a while before falling asleep – one, because it hasn't quite been a proper day-length since he woke up, and two, he's also having some kind of complicated feeling about Maitimo seeing a moonrise and soon a sunrise for the first time. 

The Quendi after a little bit of alarm largely decide that they are delighted about the new moon. They start redecorating Tol Eressëa to take better advantage of it. Maitimo stays by the cliffs until the sky starts to lighten and then goes to get Leareth.

Ugh he is not totally happy about being woken from a sound sleep, but it's very worth it in this case, and Leareth scrambles out of bed as soon as he remembers the reason. 

The sky is getting lighter. I'm not sure why, I can't see the fruit of Laurelin at all yet. 

"Usually you can see the glow from it when the sun is well below the horizon." Leareth can follow him back to the cliffs for the best view, not-very-successfully trying to hide his yawns. "It will get brighter and brighter, the stars will no longer be visible - well, they might still be to Quendi eyes I suppose - and then the sun will appear properly and hopefully there will be some pretty colours in the sky."

He considers sending a memory but decides it'll be more fun for Maitimo to see it himself, with superior Quendi eyes, and then maybe compare with Velgarth sunrises and sunsets. 

"Huh! That's really a very good concept, artistically." And he settles himself on the cliffside to watch.

The sun rises. It is much like a Velgarth sunrise on a day with a clear sky, looking out over the ocean. Maitimo gasps softly and sits very still, watching. He is sharing his eyes in case Leareth wants to look through them.

Leareth does! Maitimo's reaction is just as satisfying as he had hoped and the sunrise is indeed incredible seen through Quendi eyes.

:We ought to watch the sunset as well: he sends eventually, once the brand-new sun is properly up above the horizon. :I hope Vanyel and Stefen enjoyed watching it. What good timing for them: 

The sunset is...when it falls beneath the horizon?

:Yes. It can be even more beautiful. Particularly when there are some clouds in the sky: This time he will share some memories, of the best sunsets he can recall seeing in Velgarth, with reds and oranges and violets smeared across pillowy piles of clouds on the horizon. 

...ooohhhh. Yes, we should watch that. 

:I wonder what length they are intending the day to be? I will try to stay up until nightfall but if it is a very long day I will need a nap at some point: Leareth watches the sun a little longer through Maitimo's eyes, it's now bright enough that looking directly at it himself is painful and not the smartest idea. 

They didn't say. We could try to calculate it from how fast it's moving assuming it'll move at the same speed all day? 

Nod. :It ought to, I think. ...This place feels so much more like home with a sun. I can actually see my way around properly: Breakfast seems like a good idea. Leareth starts drifting back in the direction of his room, pausing often to look around and see how the city appears in daylight. He hasn't really seen it properly at all, before. 

It's mostly made of stone. Everything is shockingly clean, compared to a Velgarth city. The houses aren't all done in identical styles but they're all compatible with their neighbors. People are working in their gardens to change things now that there is a sun. 

The beaches glitter; it looks like lots of gemstones wash in with the tide, here. 

Huh. Leareth asks Maitimo if he knows where the gemstones come from.