"Rude to ask, yes," Ignis agreed, the faint smile edging into a smirk as he really should have expected that response, "but no one ever said anything about just using deductive reasoning."

But he imagined an awful lot could have happened in those give-or-take hundred and seventy five years, especially considering how much had happened in only just his meager thirty-three...

There was a joke there, about necromancers and robbing graves and cradles, but he couldn't quite work his way around to a satisfactory delivery, nor did he exactly desire to germinate any sort of seed that he was clearly much too young for her.

Besides, he was far more interested in where the question he did ask next would lead.

"And what have you learned in that time?"