[Altaïr listens carefully, because there is no way the stranger should be able to explain what he knows — but he does know it. He senses that this could be the most important thing anyone has told him in a long while.
He's silent for a long while.]
I do not understand how such a machine could look through time.
[But he's seen machines here that can do astounding things. Not that astounding, but his understanding of what is possible has been expanded. And he knows at least one incredible, impossible artifact exists...]
Or why it would be used to watch me. Or why the Templars would persist so long to do it.
[There's an edge of steel in his voice. He knows full well that it's harder to kill a man than it is to kill an idea, but something suggests he'd like to try when it comes to the Templars.]
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He's silent for a long while.]
I do not understand how such a machine could look through time.
[But he's seen machines here that can do astounding things. Not that astounding, but his understanding of what is possible has been expanded. And he knows at least one incredible, impossible artifact exists...]
Or why it would be used to watch me. Or why the Templars would persist so long to do it.
[There's an edge of steel in his voice. He knows full well that it's harder to kill a man than it is to kill an idea, but something suggests he'd like to try when it comes to the Templars.]