"I had to learn meditation," Felix says, a touch plaintively. Not that Tamriel doesn't have alchemical mixtures for everything including unnatural alertness. But he wasn't allowed to depend on them because Stratos.

"You, I can understand. But is it only you or does everyone in your realm need to be kept awake? And then why? What's keeping them all up at night?" The caffeine might be kicking in, but Felix only knows he's taking Jim's smile as encouragement.