I do not see why you could not. After all, what is the world without any hope? I believe we have seen that for ourselves here on the First. [ The Exarch smiles at her then. ] You would be surprised to know how much that simple hope of yours and your sisters inspires the rest of us.

[ He certainly hopes that the Scions will give the sisters time to themselves once they have come to the conclusion of tempering. Most certainly it will be a long ordeal even once they have freed Ishgard from the grip of King Thordan and his Knights Twelve. ]

My rest comes as I need it. which is not to say that I avoid it! It is typical of those that come from Sharlayan. It was not uncommon to find scholars asleep at their books as they studied or worked on their thesis. We usually found ourselves so absorbed with it that nothing else truly mattered. Not even the taste of food, really.