Sometimes I use it just to clear my head and start the day in the right frame of mind. Other times it's like a way of remembering all the things I'm grateful for. Even the island of Springstar, the suns, the sky, the ground under our feet... The church here might worship Meridian as a life-giving force, but I put more stock in nature itself.

[Just as he preferred the natural world to gods or the dogma that people ascribe to them. He gets to his feet, picking up the cushions he'd been sitting on.]

Pretty much all Almyrans rise with the sun, whether you're from the steppe, the desert, or the cities. It's a little harder here when the sun never fully goes down, but it's always a habit I've stuck to.