[Altaïr is already bracing himself, but the sheer distance leaves him visibly surprised — eyes wider, no immediate response. It's about the equivalent of a jaw drop from nearly anyone else.

Close to 700 years. Perhaps he should be glad to know the Assassins continue their work after so long, but he can onnly think that the Templars do, too.]

I don't, and won't in my lifetime. [He shakes his head.] By the Christian calendar, it was 1191 when I was summoned here. I came from Masyaf.