It tastes weird, with few of the visual correlates to flavor that Velgarth foods have, but it's tangy and good.

"I like it! It's too bad no one else but Leaf and Sunspring can try it." 

"I mean, they could, it just counts about like me having their name does."

"Well, yes. Which doesn't seem too bad, you're nice, but I'm not sure it's generally worth that kind of irreversible move just to try an interesting salad." 

"I wouldn't do it if the positions were reversed and I could avoid it."

Nod. Sapphire samples salad and watches the sunset with her. 

"It's kind of nice having a sunset and a sunrise every day."

"- Wait, what? I'm suddenly so much more confused about what happens in Fairyland instead of that!" 

"Oh, I explained this to Leareth when I was showing him the map - maybe not very thoroughly - lots of places in Fairyland spend most of their time in a particular season or part of the daycycle. Lots of places do one or the other regularly, though usually not both. I lived in a place where it was usually afternoon and autumn, with my first tree, and Thorn was from a region with a regular season cycle except for long summers but it was mostly noon."

Sapphire is making a face as though that hurts her head. "Huh. I suppose that must seem normal to you, but it's very odd to me!" 

"It's not that it's odd for here to be a place with a regular season and day cycle, but for everywhere to be the same in lockstep is very weird, yes."

"It is not actually quite the same everywhere! Sunrise and sunset are at different types depending on latitude. Here in the north, the days are longer in summer and shorter in winter compared to further south." 

"Huh! I don't actually know if Fairyland places have days longer in the summer and shorter in the winter, considering."

"Astronomers here think it's because we're on a planet which is round, and - something about it being tilted differently at different times of year? I overheard Leareth explaining it once in the dining hall but I never quite followed it. Fairyland might not have that at all, since it's not round." Her eyebrows suddenly lift. "Does Fairyland have one sun, or lots? If it's infinite, you'd think that one sun would have a hard time getting everywhere." 

"I'm not sure the sun in Fairyland is... a thing, as opposed to something it looks like there is, so I'm not sure how to count."

"Huh. Are there other natural phenomena in Fairyland that are - illusions, like that, just look like they're there but aren't really?" 

"Nothing leaps to mind."

"Nothing here either, I don't think, but there are parts of the world I don't understand." She chuckles. "Probably there are even a few things Leareth doesn't understand." 

Promise snorts a little.

"Anyway, what's your impression so far of how Velgarth compares to Fairyland, better or worse? I guess worse for you in that you can't eat conveniently our food, but now you've got this lovely garden." 

"Uh, Fairyland has the drawback of being full of fairies but I think it's otherwise nicer."

"Mmm. Leareth said it's very pretty, from what he saw of it." 

"It's much prettier, though I don't know if this is anything like the prettiest mortal location."

Dry laugh. "Not so much. The sunsets are good, I guess, but there are much better landscapes further south." Sapphire starts telling her about the prettiest forests and rivers and lakes she's seen south of the mountains. 

"I can't do illusions or I'd show you pretty Fairyland places."