Chapter 52: A Human History
"Of course not," Urvi answered first.
"Not in the centuries I've known her," the Professor added. "She did marry Darlae after all. Was quite the bit of news when everyone found out, wasn't it Urvi."
"Half the people who knew her didn't see it coming," Urvi chuckled. "The other half... well, we saw the signs ages ago."
Kir almost breathed out a sigh of relief. He didn't know how he'd react if the answer had been any different.
"But yes, back to Bridget." Ingotszen said, clearing his throat. "How did my worst student manage to raise a son with such an appreciation of the historical process?"
Kir flinched. "Well... it wasn't by teaching me history. My scores were abysmal, remember?"
"Yet your class participation has been exemplary and your insights logical, even if they are based more on material circumstances than the ideological narratives of the times we've discussed," Ingotszen said. "So I must ask what Bridget did teach you, or if it was Darlae that provided for your insights?"
Urvi snorted a bit into her tea at the notion that Darlae taught Kir his appreciate for history.
Kir suppressed a grimace, remembering when Darlae once told him 'I focus more on dealing with people trying to kill me than knowing why they're trying to kill me'.
To be fair, participating in class was better than falling asleep, and he needed a good grade. "I'm not really much of an idealist," he said. "Bridget taught me that magic is fundamentally the process by which mind and spirit impose themselves on the world, drawing forth mental phenomena and converting them into physical ones. I apply the reverse of that logic to history because physical phenomena inform mentality." He was dancing around the subject of what he really believed because he didn't really know his audience.
"How so?" the professor asked.