[What indeed? Of course, that too is a question he doesn't mean to answer unless she asks - to say nothing of the fact that it hadn't been light that had consumed the Seventh - but that is something that is loosely connected to what's happened to the First.]
You said it yourself. Who can sleep, with this excess of Light polluting the skies?
[It's another non-answer. Or at least, not a direct answer to his being too old to need someone to keep an eye on him. But it is a truth, and it's not as if she hasn't already commented on the presence of the Light being enough to give someone a headache.]
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You said it yourself. Who can sleep, with this excess of Light polluting the skies?
[It's another non-answer. Or at least, not a direct answer to his being too old to need someone to keep an eye on him. But it is a truth, and it's not as if she hasn't already commented on the presence of the Light being enough to give someone a headache.]