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Originally Posted by skip spence
Many city-folks have also forgotten that on a clear night away from any artificial lights the stars do illuminate quite adequately, even without the moon, at least well enough for normal humans with normal eyesight to move about without trouble. Perhaps the elven eyes just grew accustomed to the scarce light throughout the years, just as ours might have done if we were in the same situation.
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I was thinking the same thing. As stated before somewhere, took the boy camping for a few days in the middle of mostly no where. Though not very familiar with the area, I still able to navigate around in the dark with only minor slow downs - except when one of the scouts would blast me in the eyes with his flashlight, asking, "Can you see?"
"Not anymore..."