Challenge #00626 - A261: He Said it Best

Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum

[Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe]

“Eh, sometimes you change the world,” Shayde sighed. “Sometimes th’ world changes you. And sometimes… Caesar said it best - ‘interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum’…”

Rael was looking into his eyepiece. “Sometimes, I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe?”

She sighed. Technology. That was the problem. People could just look things up. “Yer no fun. Used tae get a lot o’ mileage outta that wi’ Hackmeyer.”

He’d heard the stories she’d told. Found the archival records of Hackmeyer’s old students. He knew that her old professor was a fraud, a charlatan, and a glory-hound. That was why he laughed at the mental image of a balding professor pretending to know everything and murmuring, 'wise words, wise words’ before moving on to a different topic… all while the students who knew what it meant giggled behind their hands.

“Kept you going, didn’t it?”

“Aye. Kept me goin’ a lot.” Through the years with Hackmeyer. Through the years after Hackmeyer. And almost… almost… today. She’d have to find new tricks.

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