Altaïr held up a hand. "I cannot speak for everyone, but I have every reason to believe I am meant to be here. Perhaps your own worlds have reasons. Mine, in my view, was clear. Perhaps you were meant to come to continue your life. Perhaps one world saw that you had run your course there and another found need of you. I cannot say. I can only speak for myself.

"But you are far from wrong in what you have said. The number of people here, their different worlds - there is much for me to learn. Though I doubt there is enough that I could teach to make the exchange balanced."

Though, now, he wondered. He had kept secrets of Masyaf and the Assassins for a reason - more than one. But now, he was to be their mentor. Didn't he have the right to challenge those secrets? To reveal them, if he saw fit?

Something else to consider.