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"So you... don't sleep."
"I rest. But no, not really. Haven't needed to for a long, long time."
"That's real devotion," Annie says, a little awed, "Wow. And for thousands of years."
"I think of it as... (Because what else can I do but think of it my way...) As an act of worship." Aquila blushes.