then on the way back from the hamlet when fenris asked her if they had the resting sun for a time in her land , that led to a conversation about how she knew a little about a lot of things due to at first to these things called `` books '' and then later on to a more recent invention called `` the internet , '' which was how so many people all around the world were able to know about what they called `` the midnight sun '' even if they had never seen it in real life with their own eyes .